Word: gruffness
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Entering the Senate in 1913 as a Helena attorney, "Tom" Walsh, grim of mien and gruff of manner, quickly developed as a great constitutional authority. He fought notably for the confirmation of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, first Jew on the Supreme Court. Organized Labor is still grateful to him for his efforts to exclude unions from the anti-trust laws He led the fight that ended only when Michigan's wealthy Truman Newberry resigned from the Senate seat he was accused of buying. His relentless investigation of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases finally put Albert Bacon Fall...
Prestige was the prime requisite for the first President of the B. I. S. and who had more prestige than gruff, Scotch-blooded Gates W. McGarrah, then board chairman of New York's Federal Reserve Bank? On the other hand what U. S. citizen knew the whole European set-up well enough to act as august President McGarrah's adviser? From the first Banker McGarrah took to Lawyer Fraser. He was elected...
...General had been German Chancellor up to last week since the days of gruff ungracious General Count Georg Leo von Caprivi who succeeded Prince Bismarck in 1890 and is remembered by the Fatherland because he won her so much African territory, notably the crooked strip called "Caprivi's Finger." Last week the Chancellorship fell like a ripe pippin into the calmly outstretched hand of swank, sardonic, intriguing Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher who is a full general...
While one publisher was pulling in his horns last week another, hitherto not widely famed, was looming on the horizon of U. S. magazine publishing. The advancing figure was that of gruff-voiced Frank Aloysius Tichenor, publisher of Aero Digest and Sportsman Pilot. Last week found him in control of a strange new collection: The Spur, Plumbers' & Heating Contractors' Trade Journal, The Port, Outlook & Independent...
Barrymore has been on the point of death in several recent pictures; it is his gruff demise which makes the end of this picture interesting. He is married to a Washington socialite (Karen Morley) who is extravagant and indiscreet. A public utilities lobbyist (C. Henry Gordon; finally forces him to retire from politics to save her reputation. Presently there is an investigation into Barrymore 's political maneuvers. He learns about his wife's in fidelity in time to expose the machinations of the utilities interests, dies of a broken heart. Good sound : applause and mutterings in the gallery...