Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...changed before 1863 when the line, on which in 25 years not so much as a spadeful of earth had been turned, received its final title-the South Pennsylvania Railroad. Not, however, because of these abortive promotions, but because 54 years ago the late William Henry Vanderbilt lost his temper, was Pennsylvania able last week to take the first steps to obtain one of the finest, safest motor highways...
Although the company had apparently judged the temper of its workers more correctly than the Board, the case was not ended, for the ballots of 155 clerks and maintenance men were challenged by both A. F. of L. and C.I.O., and the election was thrown back into the lap cf the Labor Board. The broader question of the case -whether an employer should obey the Board or the bench when their orders conflict-also remained to be settled in what may well be another Supreme Court test of the Wagner...
After the weekend bombings neither Chinese nor Japanese tested the temper of this mixed force further by other invasions of the International Settlement, but hot & heavy the battle waged in Chinese Shanghai. By week's end casualty lists had mounted to 3,500 killed, 10.500 wounded with no appreciable change in the battle lines. A thousand U. S. citizens were promptly evacuated; 2.000 prepared to leave at the first opportunity...
...luxury of a bad temper, indulged in regularly by conductors of great orchestras in. the winter, is something which most second-string, summertime maestros cannot afford. An exception is dark little José Iturbi, explosive Spanish conductor-pianist. Last summer Iturbi had one tantrum in Cleveland because his audiences munched hot dogs, another in Philadelphia because photographers' flashbulbs annoyed him (TIME, Sept. 7). In Philadelphia again this summer as leader of the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Iturbi waited until last week, an exceptionally hot one in the breezeless park, to go into his annual...
...testified that Republic's manager in the Canton-Massillon area, Carl Meyers, had asked him early in the strike "why the hell we didn't take action such as the Chicago police did and put 'em where they belong." Manager Meyers, it appeared, was in a temper, having been inadvertently shot by one of his own company guards...