Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attorney General Francis Biddle, who painfully remembers his last clash with Avery, was not quite sure how to regard Avery's present position. In the course of one short press conference, Biddle referred once to Avery as "perfectly harmless," a few minutes later was describing him as "a tough old guy who will stick to his guns." At week's end, irreconcilable old Sewell Avery trumpeted that a court test of the President's powers was what he wanted most...
...order, OPA had wriggled out of a tough spot. Shortages in meats, butter and canned vegetables were real. But the victory cost heavily in moral prestige. Into the ashcan with the invalidated stamps went much public confidence in OPA. Housewives asked: Can Washington ever again be trusted to deal fairly with those who save? Do the rewards go to housewives who hoard the most food and squander the most stamps? Many a citizen, mindful of what happened to his red and blue stamps, began to look suspiciously at airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3, wondered if they should be spent...
What happened in Denver might soon be happening in manpower-tight areas the U.S. over. In Washington, the "get-tough-with-civilians" band had regained ascendancy (TIME, Jan. 1). Manpower officials, who had used the word "critical" so often in recent months that it had lost all meaning, still talked of a need for 300,000 new war workers. But while they busily tried to shoo more men into factories, the Army upped its January and February draft quotas one-third. In New York, where war plants were short 73,000 workers, WMC's pert, tough Anna Rosenberg sent...
...head of Albania's Army, Colonel General Hoxha talked tough in the direction of Greece's Premier Papandreou. Hoxha said flatly that his country would fight to protect itself against Greek claims to southern Albania. As Premier, Hoxha promised private ownership of property, universal suffrage, national mobilization of labor to rebuild the devastated country, punishment of war criminals...
...fourth transcontinental airline last week. Northwest Airlines got permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board to extend its present route, from Seattle to Milwaukee, all the way to New York, via Detroit. But Northwest's tough, ambitious president, Croil Hunter, 51, will not be able to bite his plum till he can get some six or seven more planes-probably DC-3s at first-to fly the new route. As other transcontinental routes are overloaded, Hunter hopes that this will not take long...