Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Stelle: the Veterans Administration was inefficient, far behind in its work; thousands of veterans were suffering physical and financial hardships because of its maladministration. The record showed a "tragic breakdown. . . . Unwarranted delays. . . . What we need in charge of the VA is a seasoned businessman, not a soldier, however good a soldier...
...minds, this was not good enough. In Manila, the news completed a breakdown in Army morale, started thousands of men protesting and demonstrating. In speech and pamphlet, leaders of the "Going Home" agitation struck out against "imperialism," "militarism," the big brass, War Secretary Patterson, Congress-even businessmen. Highpoint men threatened to "lie down" until sent home; 12,000 men booed an explanation of the slowdown offered by Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer...
...country house of Britain's Prime Minister the generation of empire menders was at work. The worried ghosts of the empire builders-among them. Raffles of Singapore and Coen of Batavia-looked on. The great Far Eastern domain they had helped create was badly cracked, in danger of breakdown...
...Like a Housewife." Small, hard-eyed Allyne Velome Scheerer Carpenter Nugent, the boss, is a lithe and fiftyish fireball who has the respect, if not the love, of her staff. She inherited the Courier in 1925, five years later had worked herself into a breakdown. She went to Paris to get over it, met and married a young English-Canadian named John Lithgow Nugent-Fyfe. In Lincoln her new husband dropped the Lithgow and Fyfe, suspecting that midwesterners would not cotton to hyphenations. He ran the business...
First, no one has yet publicized the fact that this institution utterly lacks continuity of administration from the superintendent on down through the department heads. Can you imagine any great seat of learning changing presidents and heads of departments every two years? The result is a complete breakdown in policies and in control of personnel. No chief here ever gets to know thoroughly the qualifications of the great number of men who do the real work. Each new department head, in from sea, perhaps carries on that quality of arrogance you mentioned by assuming omniscience in the new work...