Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nothing. Harry Truman, no political tyro, had apparently made a grievous political blunder. He had asked for the same kind of war which Franklin Roosevelt had fought with Congress ever since the great Court-packing skirmish of 1937. In such a war, a President who stakes everything on public support and fails to win it-in unmistakable terms-runs the risk of increasingly humiliating retreats...
Perhaps the most glaring of these is the radical change in Father O'Malley. In "Going My Way" he was a genial but forceful ecclesiastical troubleshooter who reinforced a sagging church; in the sequel he is transformed into a jovial buffoon guilty of every imaginable blunder...
Canada's Government retrieved a blunder. It had ineptly imposed drastic new tariff increases on such things as steel tubing (TIME, Nov. 5), contrary to long-proclaimed policy. In Parliament this week, the new tariffs got the heave. One reason: public pressure. Another, said Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley: the chances of "early international action" to lower tariff barriers "are considerably improved...
...G.O.P. Senator, assaying the future of his party, went so far as to crow: "It isn't just that the Truman honeymoon is over; he's already in the divorce courts. The way he chastised those House committees [in his wage-rise speech] is perhaps the worst blunder of its kind since Wilson called those fellows a 'little group of willful men.' If Truman keeps that up he'll split the Democratic Party wider than it has ever been." The Senator, with traditional party optimism, thought that the G.O.P. could win the 1946 elections...
...flair for finding out what was going on led him to the conclusion that the Kolchak regime, which the western Allies were then supporting, had no backing from the Russian people. Largely because of his finding, the Graves force was limited to guarding the railway, avoided a political blunder. A grateful War Department pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on Eichelberger's high-collared blouse...