Word: mavericks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dealer Maury Maverick, San Antonio's Episcopalian mayor, hailed the event as "the greatest single fortunate occurrence for San Antonio in a very, very long time." And a letter of good wishes came from another Episcopalian who is also a personal friend-Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Henry Ford is a U. S. symbol of many meanings: mass production, low cost, high wages for workmen, the open shop. In the eyes of the New Deal the last makes him a maverick. Like an unbroken bronco who has roamed the plains in absolute freedom, Henry Ford had gone his way; many times the New Dealers had almost lassoed him, but never quite. This week the old mustang appeared to be roped at last...
...Supreme Court refused to review Ford's appeal from a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision. The decision had ordered the Ford Motor Co. to reinstate 23 employes who NLRB had found were discharged for union activity. Many months might elapse before Maverick Ford could be saddled and ridden, like other well-regulated industrial horses; many more before he would work in harness with labor and the Government. But the Supreme Court ruling made the Ford Motor Co. and all Ford officials subject to unlimited contempt of court sentences by the Sixth Circuit Court if they intimidate, coerce, threaten...
Their lineup, reading from left to right: American Student Union, organized in 1935 by Communists, Socialists and maverick liberals, by last week had lost most of its fellow travelers, was left mostly Communist. The remnant's loudest cry: no aid to Britain. Because Eleanor Roosevelt had advocated compulsory youth work camps, delegates last week divorced her (by mutual consent). They also demanded that the U. S. ally itself with China and the Soviet Union, wired President Roosevelt: YOU CAN'T PULL A WILSON...
Cleveland's maverick financier Cyrus (formerly "the Great") Eaton has friends and enemies on both sides of many a street, including Wall. A power there until the early '30s, he has won most of his subsequent newspaper clippings by front-running for the U. S.'s No. 1 anti-Wall Street financier, Chicago's pro-competitive-bidding Halsey, Stuart & Co. More recently, via the mails and letters-to-the-editor, he has offered intellectual aid to both Presidential candidates. As a Willkie-man he suggested that the New Deal is vulnerable for having made Big Business...