Word: ironhandedness
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On July 22, 1943 in prison camp at Medicine Hat, Alta., Sergeant Schwalb and another Afrika Korps man, Private Adolf Kratz, decided that a fellow prisoner, August Plaszek, was an anti-Nazi "swine," apparently because he objected to the ironhanded rule of the prisoners by a Nazi clique. So Schwalb...
Sir John Anderson, member of the seven-man War Cabinet and Lord President of the Council, moved into Sir Kingsley's place. Sir John has been the candidate of British finance to succeed Churchill, has immense power on the home front and will continue as chairman of the Reconstruction...
Coming-of-Age. Other ironhanded Presidents saw red in the rising sun of the Court. Andrew Jackson was one. "John Marshall has made his decision," he bellowed when the Court made Indians Government wards, "now let him enforce it!" Abraham Lincoln, whose election was due in no small part to...
To succeed Northern Pacific's late Charles Donnelly is the job of big (225 Ibs.), reserved, ironhanded Charles Eugene Denney (59), taken from the presidency of the bankrupt Erie. It was the late, smart Railroader John J. Bernet (chief operating officer for the Van Sweringen railroad empire) who first...
Man-of-the-Hour. The Shoreham Contract's complete and unequivocal recognition of his union by the archfoes of organized labor marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic...