Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wall composed of Hallowell, Hovenanian and Holmes was instrumental in placing all of the remaining tallies. Moseley, Ford, and Carr flashed down together in fine style, but couldn't combine to get past the opposing defense more than once. Watts played a spas- modic game at defense making the blunder which was directly responsible for the first goal of the Olympics, yet rallying strongly throughout the game to break up the opposing attack...
...crooked a politician as "Ace." Their fire-eating ante-bellum debates helped start the hostilities. It is a hard blow to both when the first honest deed of their official lives is prematurely discovered, balked. But rapidly reverting to type, each prepares elaborate lies to cover the blunder, part as bitter enemies as they ever were. "Sign it Burdette!" cries "Ace" to his secretary, who has just finished taking a blood-curdling public pronouncement urging war to the death. "Sign it Jayhawker Burdette!" cries...
...antiCommunist. Finland was no threat last week but what of emboldened Soviet Russia? The form Gustaf's fear took was that Russia may some day seize the unfortified Aland Islands, thus irreparably separating Sweden and Finland. Swedish generals agreed last week that it had indeed been a bad blunder to destroy the Aland forts in 1922. It would be wise, they thought, to pay Finland to rebuild them. Seeing eye-to-eye with them was at least one big man in Finland-Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of the Defense Council. Baron Mannerheim has a good...
...also necessary to fire the German Minister to Austria, well meaning Dr. Kurt Rieth, who had doubtless thought he was serving his Government when he undertook to dicker for the butchers and promised them safe entry into Germany. This blunder was irretrievable but it gave intuitive Chancellor Hitler one of his bright ideas. He has long been looking for a way to ease German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, protégé and "best comrade" of President von Hindenburg, out of his Cabinet (TIME, July 9). Impulsively Chancellor Hitler dashed off an effusive letter, "requesting you, Dear Herr von Papen...
...purged Berlin, where he nearly became a "suicide" month ago, Franz von Papen packed up in haste for Vienna where the Austrian Government had by no means decided to accept him as persona grata. Ignorant or careless of diplomacy's rigid code, Chancellor Hitler had committed the unheard of blunder of dispatching an envoy without the prior consent of the nation to which he is accredited. This left Austria free to administer a stinging snub which would make Adolf Hitler the laughing stock of Europe. In Vienna it was said that Benito Mussolini was strongly urging Austria to snub...