Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's was the first official royal visit to Southampton since Queen Victoria sailed in, nearly 50 years ago. On that occasion Victoria praised the plush carpet run out for her and the city fathers made the grievous social blunder of sending it to her as a souvenir. Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren...
...Sirs: The other day while playing a round on Union County's (N. J.) famous Galloping Hill Golf Course with Mr. and Mrs. Sid Karbel, honeymooning East from Detroit, the lovely Mrs. Karbel calmly remarked that she had found an unbelievable blunder in TIME. In the pictorial section on the World Conference, she said TIME curiously labelled Mr. Morrison's picture with U. S. Senator Couzens' name. On investigation, I found to my amazement that she was right. Thus, "up the flue," went two concepts- TIME'S infallibility, and that the only women who read TIME...
...gave the 20 partners of J. P. Morgan & Co. plenty to think about. Last week they had something far more serious on their joint minds: What they were going to do with their own business? For the Banking Act of 1933 (passed last week by accident because a Presidential blunder kept Congress in session four days longer than expected) requires private bankers to give up either their banking or their securities business...
...given the choice of quarters before those in good standing. Otherwise, the move is a good one. House life gives, both theoretically and in practice, tactful guidance into academic ways of life; to deprive those men of its influences, who most need it, would be a serious administrative blunder...
...KAWAKAMI is the Washington correspondent of Tokyo's great "Hochi Shimbun." The West knows him as Japan's solitary boast in the art of effective propaganda, the only member of her voluble corps of sooth-sayers clever enough to admit that the Shanghai intervention was a grave and witless blunder which could not intelligently be defended. Further, he tells why the Japanese have made themselves unpopular in Manchoukuo, and spoofs loudly at the idea that the new state was founded on the happy will of thirty million Manchurians. All this is too naive for Mr. Kawakami, who builds...