Word: individualist
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...Editor Barden intended impolitely to bracket rich, potent Individualist Robert Rutherford McCormick with his newspaper's most famed comic strip character, "Andy Gump...
...looked last week as if Harvey Samuel Firestone had acquired a new spear for his running joust with the mail-order tire. To Harvey Firestone, an embattled individualist, all the woes of the rubber world are compressed in the cheap tires which his three big competitors - Goodyear, Goodrich and U. S. Rubber - manufacture but which the mail-order houses (and a few chainstores) sell under their own brand name (TIME, April 10). Harvey Firestone's spears in the past have been price-cuts and letters to his stockholders impaling his Akron neighbors. This time the spear-thrower...
Henry Ford continued to stay in the nation's headlines by doing nothing at all last week. As a "rugged individualist" he persisted in holding out against "robust collectivism" in the form of the NRA automobile code. He puttered around his northern Michigan camp, gave no inkling of his intentions, sneaked back to Detroit in the rear of a canvas-sided auto trailer. His friends said he was more concerned with his health than with the Blue Eagle. His critics called him a stubborn old codger who had never learned to cooperate with anyone...
...children went from door to door, reciting little set speeches about "putting more men to work and increasing buying power." Most householders quickly agreed to do their buying at Blue Eagle shops but few of them pretended to comprehend the economics of the campaign. Here & there an oldtime "rugged individualist" loudly refused to go along. By last week the following Big Names had signed up as Blue Eagle consumers...
When President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) ousted Professor John Andrew Rice last spring as a too-outspoken individualist (TIME, June 19 et seq.), he split his college into two angry factions, a large pro and a small anti. Out of the Rollins rumpus last week emerged a jump college. The antis clung together, their number increased to nine (out of a faculty of 45) by dismissals and resignations after the college year ended. They looked for financial backing and a place to settle. They found both. The site is a religious conference centre complete with buildings...