Word: huff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Huey, one of the most highly paid pigskin prognosticators in the Far Eastern area, resigned in a huff in 1951 after Princeton defeated the varsity in the Stadium...
...toastmaster: Iowa's Senator Guy M. Gillette, whose campaign for re-election next year would be helped by all the publicity. This was most displeasing to General Chairman Kelly, who wanted to be his own toastmaster and introduce the guest of honor, Adlai Stevenson. Kelly resigned in a huff. That was a good opening for Iowa's State Chairman Jake More. Knowing exactly who the good guys and the bad guys are in the minds of many Iowa voters, More roared that "city slickers" had tried to keep lowan Gillette off the program...
...A.F.L.'s Executive Council gathered in Chicago's Palmer House last week, 13 of them were in for a big surprise. Old (79), crotchety Big Bill Hutcheson, ex-president (and still boss) of the 822,500-member Carpenters' Brotherhood, walked out of the federation in a huff over the A.F.L.-C.I.O. no-raiding agreement...
...French postal strike (see FOREIGN NEWS), which set communications in France back to the 17th century, was too much for the Aga Khan, who had come to Aix-les-Bains for a peaceful fortnight. He left town in a huff (actually, in a green Rolls Royce with red leather upholstery) and headed for the 20th century in Lausanne. Switzerland, followed by his chauffeur, maid and luggage in a second car. "The Aga Khan," it was explained, "receives and sends many letters and needs to make frequent phone calls abroad...
...National Bank of Portland, was appointed chairman of California's Transamerica Corp., replacing James F. Cavagnaro, 69, who retired. Apparently because new Chairman Belgrano was given executive powers equal to his own, Transamerica President Sam H. Husbands, 62, promptly resigned his $75,000-a-year job in a huff. Belgrano, the son of the president of San Francisco's Banca Popolare Fugazi (one of the foundations of A. P. Giannini's Bank of America empire), was a $35-a-week messenger for the Bank of California in 1916, served as a 2nd lieutenant in World...