Word: clearheadedness
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Last week, as if to underscore U.S. sincerity, the President prepared to send a top-notch military mission, headed by Brigadier-General John Magruder, to Chungking. A onetime military attaché in Peking, clearheaded, athletic General Magruder is well known in China.
Last week Virginia's clearheaded Senator Harry Byrd allowed the SPAB was an improvement on the previous mess. "Yet, after all," said he, "one man, the ablest in America, can do a better job than a seven-man board . . . . Let us have a procurement director . . . with power to act...
Acutely aware of the U. S. people's yen to do something, somehow, if only somebody would tell them what, is Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Lately he has been swamped by thousands of letters and phone calls from misguided patriots, each with a breathless suggestion (almost invariably...
Mr. Roosevelt has many qualifications even for that stupendous job. Much has happened since he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy in World War I, when he first emerged as a farsighted, clearheaded, efficient public servant. Franklin Roosevelt laid up war materials for two years, preparing the Navy so thoroughly...
Joseph Martin. The leathery little pub lisher of North Attleboro, Mass., his heart long set on the Speakership of the House, last week was still an ideal compromise candidate. Able, shrewd, plain as an old shoe, Joe Martin, 55, is obviously a clearheaded, sobergoing New Englander, as familiar as apples...