Word: individualist
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Lone Star Ramsay? Characteristically the Prime Minister, Scottish individualist, did not choose last week to form a "national political headquarters" for unified command and election strategy. Conservatives had urged at the very least a "national platform"; but Scot MacDonald left his Conservative and Liberal friends to fight their battles (and his) in informal unity. His own job, as he conceived it, was to get his National Labor Party going, put some 50 candidates in the field, campaign as a National Laborite for re-election in Seaham, his old constituency (TIME...
...unfortunate that young Author Craven, like young Charles Wertenbaker (Boojum!) and others, has chosen to imitate an individualist whose style is as hard to approximate as that of A. E. Housman. Author Hemingway, luring parodists but defying copyists, has perhaps done more to corrupt young U. S. writers than strong drink...
...Raymond Hood, a member of the despised Commission, was present. Perspiring with embarrassment, he came forward to say a few words in defense. No one admired Architect Wright more than Architect Hood, but Architect Wright had not been chosen for the committee because he was "too much of an individualist...
...sunk in wheat twice the crop's proportionate share of the $500,000,000 stabilization fund. Said he: "Fellow farmers! At least I hope some of you are farmers. . . . Are you fellows mendicants or beggars that you want more [U. S. funds]? ... If you'd quit being a confirmed individualist and organize to control production, you could get some place...
Intense was the relief of Argentine citizens last week when their President, Señor Hipolito Irigoyen, an arch individualist who fears neither God, Man nor the Devil, decided that he would merely snub President Herbert Hoover, by refusing to speak to him on the telephone...