Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banklike Chamber of Commerce building a block from the White House, he not only runs the Chamber but also serves as member of the Economic Stabilization Board, the State Department's Economic Policy Committee and the Management-Labor advisory committees of WPB and WMC. A vigorous but discriminating critic, he remains on good personal terms with most New Dealers and labor leaders. Mrs. Johnston, a boyhood sweetheart, spends about a third of the year with him in his Mayflower Hotel apartment, the rest in Spokane where their daughters Harriet, 17, and Elizabeth, 13, are in high school. Johnston tries...
...Baldwin failed to point out that the Army on occasion has been ruthless in its weeding out of failures in the higher echelons-many generals (but no admirals) have been quietly broken. Lower echelons are harder to get at among the millions of men now in the services. But Critic Baldwin's statements did add up to a sound criticism of the Army personnel machine, and of a U.S. deficiency in martial spirit...
...Army after three years of service as a naval officer) was saying what most officers of the Air Forces believed and were glad to hear. But his insistence became embarrassing. Finally Secretary of War Stimson listened to Navy's angry gripes. In October 1942 he publicly muzzled angry Critic Knerr...
Tough, blunt, Red-minded Joe Curran stepped out of character as a longtime hard-slugging critic of U.S. ships and shippers. He praised the Liberty as an excellent ship- for its wartime purpose. He saw nothing extraordinary in the small percentage of Liberty ship failures (3.23 reported by the American Bureau of Shipping), declared that ships built by master craftsmen in peacetime have suffered the same casualties. To keep their positions in convoys, the slow (10½ knots) Liberties often must buck mountainous seas while running at full speed instead of slowing down as they would normally do. Overloading with...
When she returned to Georgia in 1925 she decided there was enough missionary work there to keep her busy. She tools; over Laurel Falls Camp at Clayton, staffed it with progressive Bennington College counselors. With Paula Snelling, critic and riding instructor, she started a literary magazine, Pseudopodia. In demand as a speaker, gifted with a whispery, well modulated voice, she began work with Southern church groups, also interviewed prospects for the Julius Rosenwald Fund,* changed her literary magazine to the politically conscious South Today, and began to put into practice the new credo of Southern racial reform...