Word: gruffness
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This query left Miss Goldman speechless but when related to U. A. W. Vice President Edward Hall, that gruff labor-man laughed: "Why didn't you tell her we manufacture trouble...
Congressional leaders summoned to the White House a few hours after the President's return, verified his truculent mood. First conferee was gruff Senate Majority Leader Robinson. Emerging after an hour, he growled: "The battle will...
Soon as the Senate convened next day, Senator Robinson resumed, with every parliamentary trick in his bag, his attempts to get the Byrnes hot potato tossed out to cool in committee. But newshawks noted that gruff Joe Robinson was arguing with unaccustomed joviality. He grinned when, each time he asked for unanimous consent, North Carolina's Bailey boomed: 'T object...
...Hotel Commodore one day last summer at sight of two well-known townsmen in conference over a lunch table in a dark corner. One of them was James H. Rand Jr., brisk, bulky president of Remington Rand, Inc., world's biggest makers of office equipment. The other was gruff, blocky Pearl Louis Bergoff, No. 1 U. S. strikebreaker...
...Tribune and its Carey Cassius Orr. The Tribune's famed, aging John Tinney McCutcheon finds Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's rabid anti-New Dealism distasteful, ventures no further into politics than an occasional (Continued on p. 16) jest on the disparity of straw votes (TIME, Aug. 3). Gruff, one-eyed Cartoonist Orr does not hate Franklin Roosevelt either, simply considers him "despicable like a snake." He likes to picture the President as a Red, a would-be Hitler, a gorilla-like monster of Fear, Doubt and Ruin. Other cartoonists consider Carey Orr an exponent of "brute force, which...