Word: bumbler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aged (77) Marshal Emilio De Bono, a bumbler who was the first Army general to join Mussolini's "March on Rome." He was head of Government police when Italy's socialist martyr, Giacomo Matteotti, was murdered just 19 years...
...Stettinius is to find raw materials, Mr. Budd to deliver them, Mr. Knudsen to process them. To these three the President added Sidney Hillman, pink-cheeked, blond, curly-haired, 53, chief of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, vice president of C. I.O., a "labor statesman," no bumbler, coldly intellectual. Mr. Hillman will coordinate employment, supervise apprentice training...
Taft. Ohio's solid, glamorless Robert A. Taft, No. 1 Republican Bumbler, beetled off around the U. S. putting his foot in his mouth. Last week in St. Louis, Republicans from eight States told him of a daily-spreading Midwest sentiment for more substantial aid to the Allies. G. O. P. leaders, from Alf Landon down, had warned him to go slow on Isolationism; local chiefs had told him how delighted they were at his continued open-mindedness on foreign affairs. That night Senator Taft spoke, made his strongest appeal yet for strict U. S. neutrality, financial as well...