Word: scunner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long before he became president (at $100,000 a year), Norton got along with Avery only by speaking his mind. That worked until recently. Then the showdown came. It was stirred up by aging (now 74) Mr. Avery, who had a scunner on two of Ward's eight vice presidents. Avery decided to settle the matter in his usual fashion: he wanted President Norton to fire them. Norton roared: no. When Avery roared back, Norton handed in his resignation. Within 48 hours the eight vice presidents did the same. (Vice president in charge of personnel and public relations, Lawrence...
Then Kennedy shrewdly capitalized on a long-standing grudge. Ruggedly individualistic Michigan farmers had a scunner against the monopoly-like Michigan Milk Producers' Association, through which they sold their milk to Detroit's dairies-Resentful of the Association's sometimes high-handed methods and always complicated formula for buying milk, the farmers were glad to trade $75,000 for one-year promissory notes to help G.I.s. A $75,000 mortgage on the plant and 39 bank-financed jeeps completed the organization; the Servicemen's Dairy Cooperative Association was ready for business...
...Confirmed the rumor that TVA Chairman David Lilienthal was under consideration as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission (TIME, Sept. 9), thus stirring Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar into another conniption in his longstanding scunner against Lilienthal...
Pegler, it seems, has a scunner against the modern hotel: it is no longer a home away from home. In Pegler's eyes, it is "a combination dance hall, vaudeville house, nightclub and rat race for disorderly elements. . . . We who rent the rooms . . . have been imposed upon grievously ... to accommodate . . . casuals off the streets who come to dance, drink and marvel in alcoholic stupor at ... the tough blonde griping hoarsely into a tin can mounted on a pipe . . . and pretty little thrips who sing mischievously about adultery . . . while Ollie Twitch and his reefer boys are tearing the atmosphere...
...What appeared in Missouri to be unsmart local politics looked no brighter from a national viewpoint. It was known that the President had talked over his Slaughter scunner with National Chairman Bob Hannegan and other Party brass. But it seemed clear that the decision to go on the warpath personally was Harry Truman...