Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Malinovsky's chief explanation was militarily direct: the Red Army was stronger than it had ever been before. He also said that as late as last summer Russian infantry had not learned to cope with Axis tanks, but now knew how to defeat them. Other reasons: the "bewilderment" of the Germans when the Russians attacked in several places at once; the recent reorganization of the Red Army (TIME...
Trouble Everywhere. This week Henry Morgenthau, sincere and determined to do his best, a high-minded public official who likes to call himself a "hired man of the people," stuck stubbornly to his course. But the road ahead was rocky. No previous Treasury Secretary had ever had to cope with such gigantic figures as appeared in the World War II budget. None had ever had to operate from so deep in the doghouse...
...Morgenthau planned to remain Treasury Secretary in anything but name, he would have to cope quickly with his burdens of figures and men. Else his tax program would be written by Senator George, Congressman Doughton, Beardsley Ruml and perhaps Jimmy Byrnes-and Henry Morgenthau would become taxation's forgotten...
Still left undefined is how C.E.D. proposes to cope with the two massive problems of the '30s: stimulation of private investment in the capital-goods industries; rigidity of prices and wages. Also left vague is how to enlist labor, which is not represented on C.E.D.'s board. But Paul Hoffman has started in the right direction: to get the goal of post-war employment out of the realm of Washington dreams down to hard-boiled business estimates...
...wavered between exile and totalitarianism. Spain's famed Manuel de Falla (The Three-Cornered Hat) signed with Dictator Franco. Parisian Composers Arthur Honegger and Florent Schmitt toured Germany as honored guests of the Third Reich. Italian Modernist G. Francesco Malipiero began writing Fascist anthems for Mussolini. Unable to cope with political wanderings, in 1939 the embarrassed league restricted its composer membership to U.S. citizens...