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...appointed him Leader of Government Business, with most of the powers of a Prime Minister. Whitehall approved, but the Director of Gold Coast Prisons emphatically did not. "I am not prepared to take orders from one of my former inmates," he snapped, and resigned in a huff...
...returned from their money chase to tell the Prince that four of the biggest banks in France had agreed to put up the money, they found that the Prince's palace gates, guarded by royal carabinieri in blue tunics and scarlet collars, were closed to them. In a huff, the three resigned to make room for Onassis' representatives...
...British character. He was described as disillusioned because the U.S. and Russia failed to cooperate in U.N. (although he seemed to do his best to thwart any cooperation). Once, according to one story, he was making an anti-American speech when a U.S. delegate walked out in a huff. "Why does he get so worked up now?" Katz-Suchy remarked. "I have been making the same speech for years." He also seemed to be guilty occasionally of bourgeois sentimentality. In his office, on top of the safe which held his secret files, he used to keep a small Christmas tree...
...Dangers of Huff-Huff. A typical uncommitted delegate is Russell E. (for Eggman) Crawford, of Montgomery County, which adjoins Philadelphia on the west and north. Crawford is secretary and a director of the Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co. (200 employees), a respected community leader and a member of 39 organizations, including the Masons (33rd Degree), the Rotary, the American Legion, the Philadelphia Union League, the Jefferson fire company, the board of trustees of the Y.W.C.A. and the Republican Party...
...alternate in 1948. As a convention veteran, he knows the emotional crises that can beset the delegate's mind. "Let us suppose that one man has 560 votes and the other 550. That's when you have to keep cool. You can't be huff-huffed into a wrong decision...