Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noble Causes. The bleats of innocence could be heard from Trenton to Albany. Nearly everyone, it seemed, had visited Joey on behalf of someone else or in the interest of some noble cause. The explanations tended to confirm reports that Fay was still firmly in command of the construction unions, that he was handing out jobs to "graduating" comrades at Sing Sing and to relatives of cooperative prison officials, and that he was masterminding the raceway shakedowns...
Jarring Sects. Far from forfeiting his leadership to Bevan, Attlee had proved he was still in command and had taken for his own the Bevanites'-and some of Churchill's-strongest appeal to the country. The two Socialists are still poles apart on domestic issues (e.g., further nationalization, of which the Bevanites make a fetish), and Bevan is still out to win over the party from the Attlee regime, any way he can. But Attlee has pushed the thunderous Welshman right off his own front porch...
...schedule. First, Crooner Haymes led a caravan of newsmen to the Las Vegas court, where in seven minutes flat he got a divorce from his third wife. ex-Cigarette Girl Nora Eddington, who had once been married to Errol Flynn. On the courthouse steps he responded to the command of a dozen photographers to "wave your decree," then set out to pick up his fiancee, trailed by newsmen and Pressagent Freeman, who kept booming out: "Is everybody happy?" At the license bureau, while Rita and Dick tried to sign papers for their license, reporters leaned over their shoulders, gleefully pointed...
...Walet talked his father into buying him a Snipe Class sailboat. The elder Walet, who is president of the Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co., was soon shanghaied into a task familiar to the parents of juvenile sailors. Landlubber Walet began training as a weekend crewman under his son's command on Lake Ponchartrain...
...Noah Dietrich, his chief industrial adviser. Ramo and Wooldridge, because of their standing among electronic engineers-and with unlimited funds provided by Hughes-were able to round up many of the top experts in the country. Hughes also persuaded General Harold George, wartime boss of the Air Transport Command, to join the company, and he became vice president and general manager. Sales, which had been about $2,000,000 in 1948, soared to a rate of $200 million this year...