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World War II had caught the U.S. repeating many a blunder and folly from World War I. This week, in a summing-up report, the Senate's Mead Committee pointed to the worst of them, hoped they would not be repeated again...
...Blunder. In rural districts Young Bob lost more votes by coming out on election eve against feeble, aged (82), but popular Governor Walter S. Goodland, who won renomination without a campaign. German-Americans, once solid for the La Follettes, no longer balloted in a bloc. This time many voted a preference for McCarthy's conservative stand on domestic issues...
...harried the nation with coal strikes, split the Administration, humiliated Franklin Roosevelt, and virtually wrecked the War Labor Board, as he had wrecked the Mediation Board. In return for only the smallest of gains he brought down upon his head once more the wrath of Congress. It was a blunder. More than any other man, John Lewis was responsible for the Smith-Connally Act, the boomerang labor law which Congress passed in an effort to curb...
...steel industry and its importance in the national economy necessitate a large measure of public ownership. . . . For [the transition] period I propose to establish a control board. . . ." He gave no further details. It was Labor's vaguest policy statement to date. It was also Labor's greatest blunder...
...buildings from Provincial Premier John Hart, announced that it would offer first-year courses in medicine and pharmacy in September. It was also making plans to teach dentistry, optometry, music, dramatics, physical education, possibly journalism. In noncultural fields it was soaring, too. The Thunderbird basketball team (sometimes called the "Blunder-thirds' ) had surprised everybody by trouncing some crack U.S. college teams...