Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Worth also admit to the committee that the whole scheme had done the Navy no good? Worth would go further than that: "I will state to anybody that I've done the Navy no good...
...statement together. The Navy board would have company. Carl Vinson and Committee Counsel Joseph B. Keenan also promised that they would get to the bottom of Cedric Worth's undercover campaign against the Air Force and the Administration. Most committee members believed that Bureaucrat Worth could not have done it without a lot of help from Navy officers...
...British press, as if a little ashamed of its earlier behavior, paused to recall how much the U.S. had already done for Britain; the U.S. press reminded itself of the harsh fact that, if Britain went down in economic distress, dragging the great sterling bloc of nations with her, the U.S. economy would be sorely shaken, the free world's defenses critically weakened. Dean Acheson in Washington and Ernest Bevin in London argued that the need to maintain U.S.-British unity must influence economic decisions...
...remit anything of their plans . . . It is not enough for a self-respecting Government merely to say that its opponents would have been no better ... In Britain courage pays political dividends. Those politicians who refuse to prolong the rosy illusions . . . and tell the people soberly what needs to be done would be surprised at the response...
Such economies would bring on personnel dismissals, temporary unemployment and a grave risk for Labor's political prestige. "What of it?" snapped one harassed party chief last week. "It's got to be done. We've got to take the risk...