Word: mavericks
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...Maury Maverick, colorful, pugnacious, bullheaded, hardworking, and as ardent a New Dealer as Harold Ickes, last week ran second best in the Democratic election for the mayoralty of San Antonio...
...stunned. But not for long. Maverick had run on his record-the housing project, the reorganization of the police and fire departments, his friendship for San Antonio's 94,000 Mexican-Americans...
That record looked good for a reform mayor, looked particularly good compared with that of his opponent, tall and grey-haired, dignified and distant, Charles Quin. San Antonio's mayor for six and a half years before Maverick defeated him in 1939. Maverickos had no trouble making his administrations look like epics of graft, incompetency, black reaction...
Same day Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace was publicized as second-highest-paid U.S. executive, fiery septuagenarian Spinster Zara du Pont, munitions family maverick and Bethlehem stockholder, sued him, the corporation and 17 other Bethlehem officers and directors for $1,000,000, charging wasteful expenditures of that amount for labor-baiting...
Your slogan seems to be "Curt, Clear, Complete." One meaning of "curt" is rude. Now I could refer to your editors as "bowlegged waddies," "brocklefaced bozos," "drugstore caballeros" or "maverick-roping rustlers," and perhaps accomplish nothing but a feeling of resentment on their part. That would be rude. Besides, it would not be true. But the point I am trying to make is that your writers go out of their way to describe their subjects as "potbellied," "bullnecked," "paunchy," and the like. By so doing they invite ill will, engender resentment, and offend the nice sensibilities, for instance, of foreign...