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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...
Once the Army realized its fiscal blunder, it went to work to rectify it by fobbing off the marks on soldiers and occupation personnel in Germany. For all goods and services supplied by Germans, such as telephones, railroad tickets, furniture, etc., the Army paid them from its hoard of marks. But for the use of these services, the Army charged soldiers and occupation personnel in occupation script, a strictly controlled U.S. currency. In effect, the Army was getting dollars for the marks it was giving the Germans. Even charitable funds sent to Germany were converted into marks before being paid...
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...