Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Decided flatly (but privately) not to recall from Russia U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, but left the matter on a 24-hour basis. Franklin Roosevelt firmly believes that in his foreign policy he has made but one bad blunder: withdrawal one year ago of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson. Mr. Roosevelt regards Ambassadors as reporters, doesn't like the second-hand reports now coming out of Berlin to the U. S. via London and Paris. The Kremlin, he well knows, would not care a fingersnap if Mr. Steinhardt were recalled, and then...
...giving Mr. Siepmann a Harvard title, which will prove an open sesame in the circles in which he will move, the University made a tactical blunder. In these days of indirect propaganda, the coloring of news dispatches and radio programs is all-important: it has a cumulative effect upon the mental climate of the people. If Britain is successful in convincing the United States that it must step in and save the cause of world civilization, Harvard can boast of having contributed to that...
...photograph of the lady in tights, carrying my wife's name, is a fake, without even a remote resemblance to justify the blunder...
...marble statue in Scranton. Last week on John Mitchell Day, every miner in the State took the day off, as usual. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James, who boasts that he used to be a miner himself, celebrated the day with an incredible political blunder. He let subordinates fire John Mitchell's 46-year-old son, Richard, a $2,100-a-year clerk in the Department of Property and Supplies. By nightfall, thousands of miners were petitioning for Richard Mitchell's re-employment and denouncing Governor James, who lamely pleaded that St. John...
...Flint to Germany, Russian diplomacy looked like a tricky sequence of twists, evasions, contradictions. Nobody needed to point out the main consequence: if anything happened to the 41 U. S. sailors, Russia's refusal to permit Ambassador Steinhardt to get in touch with them would become a diplomatic blunder of the first magnitude...