Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brings a dynamic, self-confident personality to the ANPA's presidency. He broke a strike which attempted to unionize the Banner's mechanical force seven years ago. Inheritor from his grandfather,* German Immigrant Edward Bushrod Stahlman, of both the Banner and his grandfather's famous quick-temper, Publisher Stahlman sometimes bursts violently out of his office into the city room waving aloft a copy of the Banner and shouting, "Who made this damned mistake?" Operating in a poorly paying newspaper town, he drives himself as hard as he drives his staff, appearing frequently at his office...
...Germany or gone back there I should probably not be alive today." His work has won appreciation outside of Germany, nevertheless he still considers himself a German writer, primarily for German readers: "From the beginning of my intellectual life I had felt myself in happiest accord with the temper of my nation and at home in its intellectual traditions...
...Tunis. In 1804 he became "Navy Agent to the Barbary States" and as such led his heterogeneous force from Alexandria, Egypt, through the Libyan Desert and attacked Derna from the landward side while U. S. gunboats under Commodore Samuel Barron bombarded the town from the sea. Hot of temper and loose of tongue...
Lewis Cautions. With this temper among men, it was natural that many should grumble that the Chrysler settlement was a defeat for labor. It was a defeat, however, not so much for Leader Lewis as for an ill-advised strike spirit in the plants which had forced his hand. Night after the settlement he addressed a crowd of 25,000 unionists jamming Detroit's State Fair Coliseum and made it plain that it was time for hotheads to give up blundering into strikes for which their responsible leaders were not ready. First, however, his aides warmed up the crowd...
...reformed." A friendly peasant hid Spina in a shed, an old schoolmate had just enough courage to get him a disguise, send him off to a mountain village. Garbed as Don Paolo, a priest on vacation. Spina slowly got his bearings again, gradually began to sound out the political temper of his neighbors. Against his stubborn will he finally had to admit that ignorance and fear had drained all the political temper out of them. Here & there he found an old comrade still willing to work for freedom, or a youngster who suspected that there was something rotten...