Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to the limit, General Marshall will supervise the great invasion and at the same time remain in closest touch with the people's representatives. Never in U.S. history has a military man enjoyed such respect on Capitol Hill. One reason is that he (who has never cast his vote) is completely free of political concerns. When Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson mentioned him as a Presidential possibility, General Marshall's negative reaction was so unmistakably genuine that Congress knew: this man is a trustee for the nation...
...press conference, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau cast off his usual timidity and forthrightly denounced the 1944 tax bill. The Treasury, said he, would be better off without any tax bill than with the one just put together by the Senate Finance Committee. He was angriest over sections of the bill which virtually repeal the Contracts Renegotiation Act. Said he: "They open the way to truly extortionate profits. I predict if they are enacted into law they will come back to plague not only the Congress but the war goods manufacturers. They hold the seed of a national scandal...
...offices of the Aramayo mining company, tore the roof off President Peñaranda's house, paraded about with the Presidential bathtub over their heads. Soon MNR members with white armbands stopped the party, but the people of La Paz had shown their dislike for the U.S., had cast doubt upon: 1) the U.S. State Department, and 2) the practical effect of the Good Neighbor policy...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, silver-haired, 81-year-old coach at the College of the Pacific, got 78% of the votes cast by the Football Writers' Association for the game's "man of the year." His Navy trainees had polished off all but two of their nine tough opponents. At the same time (20-odd years after his team-producing heyday at the University of Chicago), 128 coaches on a New York World-Telegram panel hailed him as their outstanding colleague...
...India, a sergeant who had been a Cleveland molder cast a sour look at the local foundry facilities: a fire in a sand pit, with hollows scooped in the ground for molds. There were no furnaces, patterns or flasks. So he made his own. With a furnace of firebrick taken from the town dump, his three enlisted men and several Indians turn out 500 different items from junkyard aluminum and used brass cartridge cases...