Word: blunders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bundles for G.l.s. Just how the blunder had occurred was explained chiefly by Assistant Secretary of War Howard C. Petersen. The marks for the U.S. and Britain were printed in Washington. The U.S. also offered to print marks for Russia...
Every good politician knows how important control of local governments can be to a national election. But last November, when they swept 14 of the 16 offices then at stake in Cook County, Illinois' elated Republicans committed a major political blunder. They figured they could win this spring's Chicago mayoralty with anybody...
Critics had called his first show the Museum of Modern Art's "worst blunder," a "combination of preciosity and of the hunting down of butterflies with the aid of caterpillar tractors." His simple compositions seemed frozen into place by the fussy discipline of an old man. But to a public weary of modern art's chaotic ugliness, Hirshfield's childlike craft and gay colors were refreshing. Picasso said, just like that: "He's a great artist...
Soekarno, like thousands of other young Indonesian intellectuals, was a wavering moderate in his opposition to Dutch rule. In 1926 the Dutch made a major blunder. In suppressing a Communist uprising, they exiled 4,500 Indonesians, without trial, to New Guinea. Soekarno became an uncompromising (but nonCommunist) nationalist, reached out for power, achieved a considerable following before being exiled to Flores Island...
...Jewish Agency Executive. His opponent was a Cleveland rabbi, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. Sad-eyed, smooth-talking Dr. Silver, who led some U.S. Jews in opposition to the British loan, opposes Ben-Gurion on the ground that the Agency's offer on partition was a tactical blunder which gave ground too readily to the British...