Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observers hoped that this new breach in the levee, which has until now channeled the entire U.S. war effort through the narrow banks of the President's office, would be as wide and effective as the break which put Donald Nelson in charge of war production at home. By superseding the host of obscure agencies and purchasing commissions which have been handling aid to the Allies, the President's three new boards may be able to swell Lend-Lease to a torrent, send it roaring down to engulf the Axis...
...withdraw his ships and men while the people of St. Pierre & Miquelon hold another plebiscite. Cordell Hull was confident that the vote would go the same way. But the ugly shadow of coercion would be lifted-and Vichy left with no grounds for accusing the U.S. of a breach of faith...
Though head of the clan, Bernard is not its patriarch. That is Ellis, 76, board chairman and only survivor of the original Gimbel Brothers. Bernard's brother Frederic, a vice president, has made newspaper trouble for the family in a small way; breach-of-promise suits have taken him twice to court, though never to the altar. But the only real rift in the clan was between Bernard and his cousin, old Ellis' brilliant son Richard...
...board and founder of the orchestra is a blonde, fast-talking, 29-year-old female violinist. So intent has she been in keeping herself and the rest of the group anonymous that TIME'S Hollywood correspondent declared: "To divulge her name would be the worst possible breach of journalistic faith." The Symphony invites conductors, well and little known, to preside over its sessions. José Iturbi, Igor Stravinsky, Georg Szell, Arnold Schönberg were glad of the chance. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, highbrow-turned-movie-composer, showed up with only 16? in his pocket. Nine members of the orchestra...
...just as independent as he is today. Once, while leading eleven other battleships in a pea-soup fog, he heard a destroyer's warning siren, somewhere off his bow. Promptly, without consulting his fleet commander, he ordered the line to stop. Hauled up on the carpet for breach of regulations, he exploded: "If I couldn't see, how the hell could the flagship at the end of the line?" He was officially rebuked, unofficially applauded...