Word: nailer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes worked like a nailer to entrench his new Government (TIME, Aug. 21). Most of Havana was gay and businesslike again, even though shots were heard every few hours as long-oppressed Cubans continued their man hunt to kill every member of ousted Tyrant Machado's detested terrorist squads, the Porra, blamed by all Cuba for countless political murders and ghastly torture of prisoners. Meanwhile the big white Cuban problem which most worried Provisional President de Cespedes, U.S. Ambassador Welles and President Roosevelt was-and seems likely to remain-sugar...
...counsel, then Wisconsin's insurance commissioner. He heckled the insurance companies enough to make them agree to the regulations now enforced, smiled enough to keep in the good graces of the companies. Northwestern made him a vice president in 1919. He is big, hearty, broad-shouldered, a nailer for work. Insurance people predict that under him Northwestern's shiny marble tomb will lose some of its historic chilliness...
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