Word: huffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William L. ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, the ponderous president of the Carpenters Union, biggest in A. F. of L. (300,000 members). Perennial campaign head of the Republican Party's labor committee, he quit the executive council in a huff last year when A. F. of L. plumped for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today Carpenter Hutcheson's power is on the wane, partly because his Republican affiliations are no longer of great value, partly because he lost face after John L. Lewis punched his jaw at the 1935 convention...
...only remaining Presidential head, that of Theodore Roosevelt, has already been roughed in. His final task will be finding a suitable historical inscription. The 500-word history of the U. S. submitted by President Coolidge was edited so extensively by Sculptor Borglum that Mr. Coolidge withdrew it in a huff. ''Posterity," says Gutzon Borglum, "will hold me responsible for it, whether I write it or not, and I want it to be right...
...tittered instead of jittered at news emanating from troublemaking U. A. W. By week's end the Press had given U. A. W. such a needling about its ''anti-union" tactics that the more serious-minded unionists around U. A. W. headquarters were in a high huff. Loudly-and correctly-they pointed out that U. A. W. was already living up to most of the U. O. P. W. A. demands except on minor points like seniority, lighting, restrooms. As for lighting and restrooms, that was up to the Hofmann Building management...
...arrive at a contrary opinion in concentration camps!" In Italy's present production spurt toward rearmament, Labor's Cianetti dashes incessantly about the kingdom, addressing workers' meetings, hearing grievances and badgering big Italian employers like the Agnelli ("Ford of Italy") family in Turin whose members huff at mention of his name...
...angrily shooting a panther for misbehaving in a circus and by beating up a journalist who accused him of misbehaving as Santiago's customs administrator, stormed into Havana last year as a Senator for the first time. When Senate President Justo Luis del Pozo resigned in a huff over patronage, hard-boiled Boss Batista liked hard-boiled new Senator Illas well enough to help boost him into the Senate's presidency. First thing the Senate knew, President Illas lost his temper again. One day when his 62-year-old uncle José Hourruitinier waylaid him in the Capitol...