Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amazement. This climaxed the public spat over Sir John's proposal to grant a measure of rearmament to Germany which M. Barthou bluntly rejected (TIME, June 11). To all appearances they parted bitter enemies, but just before Sir John left Geneva, M. Barthou, having discovered the nature of his blunder, called to make a handsome apology which Sir John handsomely accepted...
...Depression, the fear of a Nazi Mittel Europs, the agitation of Communists and the nagging of Royalists, the national ire aroused by the scandal, may give Doumergue a year or so. But the cards are stacked against him; only let France catch its breath and a new scandal, a blunder in judgment, will find a host of Deputies ready for a new "calculation" to form a new Cabinet, and another, and another. Only when France gives her Premier the club of Dissolution will the Deputies coalesce into two great parties, one to criticize and one to lead--to formulate...
...Erickson decried it. Airline operators, rumbling concerted protest, argued that lines not now engaged in air transport could not get ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week's call for temporary bids as the "eighth distinct and conflicting policy adopted by the Post Office Department within . . . six weeks...
First critic was Frank R. Kent, seasoned political commentator of the Baltimore Sun. Said he: "In its essence, this Roosevelt view of criticism means it is better to make a blunder than to do nothing. It bars pointing out the danger of going in one direction unless you suggest going in another...
Thus ends the first stage of what will come day be recorded as the biggest administrative blunder of our post was decade and the most conspicuous example of what political muckraking can do when it gets started...