Word: individualist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain the Ford factory has been busy manufacturing Rolls-Royce Merlin engines for British Spitfires and Hurricanes.) More than that, his men were busy consulting with airplane experts, notably Colonel Lindbergh, on building planes as well as engines. The Administration might count him out, but Henry Ford, ever an individualist, was driving right ahead-just as if an order for 1,000 planes a day were in his hands-on Henry Ford's own program for national defense...
...since 1911, when Henry Ford won the basic Selden patent suit against most of the rest of the automobile industry, he has gone his own way, had no truck with the Automobile Manufacturers' Association, held his own auto shows, stood out in a cooperative industry as an arch-individualist. Exceptions: 1) after Ford Motor Co. bought Lincoln Motor Co., an A. M. A. member, Lincolns continued to take part in A. M. A. shows; 2) Ford suggested and cooperated in the industrywide Used Car Week of 1939; 3) Ford joined in the simultaneous introduction of the Sealed-Beam headlight...
...Individualist. One Swedish journalist who has stubbornly resisted regimentation by Nazi imperialists is Torgny Segerstedt, editor-owner of Göteborg's famed Handels-Och Sjöfartstidning (Trade and Shipping Gazette). So proud of its liberal tradition is the Gazette that it has been called Sweden's Manchester Guardian. Segerstedt's column, I Dag (Today), is masterful journalism. He has a rare faculty for clothing deadly sarcasm (about Hitler, Stalin, various native enemies of democracy) in words so innocent that even Minister Westman cannot dub them "offensive." Sample: "What cannot be hidden is the opinion...
After Reconstruction the Supreme Court waxed in authority and popularity with the ruling classes. With a long series of proBusiness, pro-Individualist decisions it paved the way for the westward expansion of the nation. Yet the best-loved Justice since the Civil War was no railroad lawyer, but brilliant, handle-bar-mustachioed Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Great Dissenter...