Word: blundered
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...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...
...blunt terms of domestic politics, any blunder might have completely changed the situation in the Senate; any bold and dramatic action would have given ammunition to critics who believe the President to be unpredictable in foreign affairs. Inaction was unthinkable on moral and political grounds-not only had Finland scrupulously paid her war debt instalments to the U. S., but U. S.-Finnish relations have been an untroubled model of what international relations should be. Moreover a government that publicly and repeatedly frowned on the aggression of Fascist Germany would be placed in a truly remarkable position if it ignored...
...report of the Committee of Nine. Though it is true that President Conant may find partial support in the Committee's recommendations, any insistence upon citations from the report can only make clearer that however admirable in substance, it was in form and in timing a political blunder of the first magnitude. Looking back upon the brief history of President Conant's "concentration-quotas," no member of the University should now feel surprise at the present unhappy outcome of the Committee's devoted labors; and none should despair that President Conant may, in due course, view the appointment problem...
General Gamelin knows all about Bazaine's blunder and he knows also the history of the first Napoleon, who never made such mistakes. Napoleon frequently carried his eagles through the Black Forest into southern Germany. Ulm, Ratisbon and Hohenlinden in the South German Basin were all sites of Napoleonic victories against the various coalitions of Austria, Russia and England. A few miles from Ulm, at Blenheim, the Duke of Marlborough won his "famous Victory" in 1704-the victory over the French that so nonplussed the grandfather of Little Peterkin in Robert Southey's poem. To prevent...