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Arnold Sigurd Kirkeby (rhymes with irk-a-bee), 44, breakfasted early at Manhattan's tony Hampshire House, which he owns. After breakfast he slowly smoked his way through two fat, black Rey Del Mundo cigars. Then he was ready for battle...
...Navy yard worker I find situations that, at times, irk me but a little thinking on the subject usually eases my conscience and clarifies the case at hand. ... If the riveters are on board waiting for the carpenters, the carpenters are on board, etc., then the maximum effort can be delivered at an instant's notice, whereas if each had to be located somewhere else, their-tools brought to the ship, and time lost in getting ready for work it would still require at least four other men to keep one working...
...popularizing the phrase, "fifth column," Martin Dies has earned himself an unenviable paragraph in H. L. Mencken, and a good many inches in the newspapers. His plea yesterday for an appropriation to continue his carte blanche investigations will irk neither the rouges nor the noirs so much as it will upset the sincere democrats in this country. If there is any one man today who symptomizes the tendency in a crisis period towards the rise of a vigilante spirit of hysteria, it is the Honorable Gentleman from Texas...
Bill Martin had not been conspicuous enough to irk the Old Guard, had simultaneously earned the warm regard of liberals by his solid good sense, extraordinary knowledge. Obvious choice for chairman of the new board, he soon became the obvious choice for president. At first it was planned to give this vital job to some high-powered bigwig. But as the new management completed the reorganization, it became apparent that no better symbol of the new day in Wall Street could be found than 31-year-old Bill Martin. Six weeks...
...four months (3,000,000 bbl.). The Treasury was pleased to find all the bids different; the industry was upset because each maker knows that if his bid is too high he will lose out to some competitor for the Government's business, if too low it will irk his commercial customers still buying under the old system...