Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supporting. Although there are varying degrees of opposition within the Republican ranks, statements of prominent leaders give grounds for the fear that the issue is being fought in terms of party aggrandizement rather than of national welfare. Minnesotan Floor Leader Knutson characterizes the trade pacts as "a succession of dismal failures." Going off on a different tack, he implies that the fundamental question is one involving the power ratio of Congress in relation to foreign policy. Vestiges of isolationist complacency are refurbished by H. Fish's statement that "the reciprocal trade agreements have no more to do with peace than...
...northern coast of Occupied France. Blonde, 16-year-old Yvonne, a French girl who devoutly believes in truth, comes face to face with the awful consequences of honest dealings with the enemy. Rich in character studies of Nazi soldiers, Gestapo functionaries, French villagers, First Harvest is a dismal, moral tale of average literary merit...
...short and dismal history of the second Burma campaign the British never had made their purposes clear. A major accomplishment would have been the seizure of the Jap base at Rangoon on the Bay of Bengal. In the end the British would have settled for the little harbor and air base of Akyab, about 325 miles north of Rangoon. But even Akyab now was beyond reach - at least until the end of the monsoon, some time in October...
...before New Year's was dismal in the offices of the 13-month-old Chicago Sun. Some 30 editorial employes were fired...
During the dismal '30s most of the high-powered thinking about the U.S. economy as a whole went on in Washington, D.C. Last week there occurred one more sign-Henry Kaiser's speech to N.A.M. was an earlier one (TIME, Dec. 14) -that U.S. business is now resolving to do some national thinking on its own account. Formally announced was the "Committee for Economic Development," which believes that the U.S. must have as its goal the maintenance of post-war employment at some 55 millions, the maintenance of the national output of goods and services at between...