Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week members of the Japanese Privy Council, too angry to be discreet, blabbed that the Japanese Foreign Minister had himself unwittingly blabbed the secret in a conversation with the Soviet Ambassador to Japan, Comrade Konstantin Yurenev who of course flashed it to Litvinoff. The cost of this blunder to the Japanese fishing industry, according to its irate Tokyo tycoons last week, will run into the tens of millions...
...Matanuska Valley (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.). On a set devised by Donald Oenslager which has a huge, improbable limb of some coniferous tree hanging from the proscenium, hopeful men, women & children arrive singing, yapping, gossiping, making acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications. Ill-humor reaches a peak with a shortage of fruit, vegetables and salt; a raid on the commissary is nipped by Hodges who has turned...
Every indication points to an administration sortie into Congress with the Canal in tow. And not far behind lurks the dismal shade of its twin blunder, the Passamaquoddy project. President Roosevelt, this time, undoubtedly has the power and prestige to browbeat a subservient Congress into a receptive mood. To do so, however, would be an appalling abuse of trust and confidence...
...asserted that a certain substance inhibited the action of insulin in the body. When colleagues complained that they could not repeat his experiments, he admitted that neither could he because assistants on whom he had relied in the first place had made an error. His frankness in admitting his blunder put him back in the graces of fellow scientists...
...cause behind the mysterious blunder at Balaklava, Screenwriters Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh have arbitrarily chosen for their stage the tried & true terrain of Northern India. Here, in 1850, Captain Geoffrey Vickers saves the life of Surat Khan in a leopard hunt the day before the Khan learns that the British Government has discontinued his fat subsidy. Months later, Geoffrey reaps the reward of his good turn. When the Khan's tribesmen have surrounded the military outpost at Chukoti, Geoffrey and the girl (Olivia de Havilland) who loves his brother are the only members of the garrison who survive...