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...Detroit, another lean individualist who was also a mechanic thought he knew a good wrench man when he saw him. He could use another man at vast Willow...
...rugged individualist George P. McNear Jr., president of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, the President dispatched a final request for arbitration of a 77-day-old strike. George McNear sent back a wire that made Washington eyebrows jump: "Greatly appreciate if you will permit me to present [my reply] in person. . . . Can be in Washington Friday morning. . . . Would thank you to let me know time to be at your office." The President sent an ultimatum. George McNear sent back a 77-page collect telegram, refusing to arbitrate. The President thereupon seized the railroad, cracked an important transportation bottleneck around Chicago...
...Wagner were living today, he would not have fallen in with the Nazis," Leinsdorf said. "Wagner, like all great artists, was an individualist, and individualists have no place in Germany today," he stated. Wagner would probably have chosen to leave Germany, as more than one writer and composer has already done, rather than be forced to compose under the dictates of the Nazis, according to Leinsdorf...
Claudine is an impulsive and sensitive student at a middle class girls' school in Burgundy. Too much of an individualist to be popular with her classmates, she is ignored by her father, who lives in his chateau with no other purpose than the breeding of snails. Her only friend is a charming Parisian waif, Mouloud, whom her father picked up in the city one day and brought back with...
Separation wages are merely the latest front on which Sam Ferguson, 68, implements his faith in progressive private enterprise. A pioneer in low utility rates, power pools, the mercury turbine, many another social and technological change, he is a Yankee individualist who also knows what year it is. Last month he told his stock holders that Hartford Electric Light Co. would have a new policy for the duration : "to increase the amount of earnings to be converted into taxes." That meant fewer reserves, no additions to surplus. But not even unorthodox Sam Ferguson wants to go broke paying taxes...