Word: showdowns
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...with Chairman Arnold Schlaet in 1920, the question of who was to run the biggest independent oil company in the U. S. again popped up. Ralph Clinton Holmes, by this time not only president but acting chairman of the executive committee and board of directors, again called for a showdown. This time he lost. Mr. Holmes was reluctant to move from his big paneled office in the Chrysler Building but when he did he took offices, like Mr. Beaty, a few floors above his old company. Last week in that office, unlike Mr. Beaty, he had a platoon of stenographers...
...sergeants told their superiors they were through. Word traveled fast how easy it was-to the other barracks, to the police, to the rural guard, to the Navy. This was the bloodless "revolt of the sergeants." They held the forts, ships, men, artillery. If it came to a showdown, they held the balance of power. Their leader was straightway made Chief of Staff and Revolutionary Leader of the Armed Forces. He was Top Sergeant Fulgencio Batista, who as a sharp-eyed court stenographer had listened for eight years to the Machado trials of revolutionary suspects. Surrounded by bully boys from...
When it came to a showdown, Marda found that Mother knew best: married love was better than clandestine...
...socialism is being essayed and, so far as Roosevelt, Johnson, and two or three of the other captains there are concerned, it will be put across no matter how much it hurts the manufacturer and business man. That is the important point. Some head men are ready for a showdown, if necessary. (But they would hate it.) An important business man counts for as much with Gen. Johnson as you or I do. The spacious halls of the commerce department, once wonted to bow low when a Business Man have in view, are witnessing strange things. The spectacle is typical...
...issues at stake, the mitigation of world depression and the termination of virtual economic war, are bound up with national political policies. They depend for their solution upon a cooperative attitude on the part of this country, upon Mr. Roosevelt's sincerity in advocating reciprocal tariffs, and upon a showdown in the present war debt deadlock...