Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iong ago a civil servant who had just been transferred to the Ministry of Aircraft Production expressed the general complaint against the Ministry. "You'd hardly believe the appalling state of this office," said he. "The place is a complete chaos." Somebody asked: "Isn't the Beaver producing the planes?" "Oh, yes," said the complainant, "he's producing them all right. But, my dear fellow, the methods! They're dreadful...
...Full-bearded Candidate Arlon B. ("Cyclone") Davis, son of the late, famed Populist Leader Cyclone Davis, who campaigned in an Uncle Sam suit of red-&-white striped pants, blue jacket, with a tall beaver bonnet, and told Texans he would "eat earthworms, drink branch water, and sleep on Johnson grass hay" to get Lee O'Daniel out of office...
...Russian. The Russian radio failed even to mention the speech. All this in spite of Herr Hitler's confident statement on Russo-German relations: "A veritable Wandering Jew among [British] hopes is the belief in the possibility of a fresh estrangement between Germany and Russia." Working like a beaver on those hopes in Moscow last week was Britain's new Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps. All previous British attempts to win hyper sensitive, suspicious Joseph Stalin have failed, partly because of an accumulation of minor British psychological blunders, which Sir Stafford has been doing his best to avoid...
Last week Max had a shock. Believing that his entry into the Cabinet would provoke storms of protest from his countless enemies, he was touched when Britons responded to his appointment with loud applause. Even Baron Camrose, major Fleet Street competitor of The Beaver, came out handsomely in his London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post: "As one of the new ministers comes from Fleet Street, which has the best means of estimating his powers, we may offer warm welcome to the decision which has made Lord Beaverbrook Minister for Aircraft Production...
...lamenting. He got to work. The study of his palatial Stornoway House in London became his Ministry. He launched a lightning survey of the present status of British aircraft production, ripped out orders which brought aircraft-factory heads scrambling from all over the kingdom for lightning interviews with The Beaver. Most important of all, pals Max and Joe conferred regarding acceleration of U. S. aircraft shipments to the Allies, and almost certainly Ambassador Kennedy and Minister Lord Beaverbrook clicked with each other and with President Roosevelt...