Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although it would be a blunder to accept most writers at their own evaluation, Fletcher Pratt is just what he once said he was: "A literary mechanic." His tinkering has produced 46 books ranging from juveniles to a first-rate military study of World War II, The Marines' War (TIME, Jan. 19, 1948). Like a lot of self-made military experts, Author Pratt is perhaps happiest when he is refighting the War Between the States. In his new book, Stanton, he has a fine time trying to prove that Lincoln's War Secretary was a great & good...
Spectators and newsmen were counting on fireworks. As the hard-hitting leader of the 1949 "revolt of the admirals," Arthur Radford had opposed the building of the B-36 (as "a billion-dollar blunder") and had questioned the morality and military wisdom of "the atomic blitz." Now, across the table from him sat some of the Senate's strongest air-power advocates, among them Democrat Stuart Symington of Missouri, a Radford foe since his days as Truman's Secretary of the Air Force...
...Bull" Halsey and Raymond Spruance. In 1949, on duty as commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, he led the famed "revolt of the admirals." At the congressional hearings, Radford blasted the Defense Department for sapping the Navy's offensive strength, called the 6-36 a "billion-dollar blunder." At one point, the Army chief of staff, General Dwight Eisenhower, became so angry at Radford that he refused to attend a J.C.S. meeting because Radford was present. But on his trip to Korea last December, Ike got a different impression of the Pacific Fleet Commander. At a dinner...
...blunder for which I have myself to thank...
...Stalin and company made a huge tactical blunder in assuming that European Jewry was a pushover for the People's Party. Ever since the Bolshevik Revolution the Politburo has gambled on a campaign of magnanimity towards the Jews, thinking that the lack of a homeland and Nazi decimation would wean them to Soviet allegiance. When Israel gained independence in 1948 and their scheme backfired, the Russians tried to save face by wiping out any strong Jewish influence behind the Iron Curtain...