Word: dourness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extent of the dour "Old Bear's" unpopularity could easily be gauged. Month ago, Kentucky elected its first Republican Governor since 1927. But the G.O.P. failed by 229 votes to capture the Fourth District. Last week, the G.O.P. swept the Fourth by a 12,600 majority...
...handsome, confident Admiral began his task last month when he flew to Chungking. He consulted with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, bluntly asked for his advice on continental strategy, had an initial success such as no other British military leader had attained in China. Dour "Uncle Joe" Stilwell was also impressed. Stilwell will probably become deputy commander...
...Dour, diffident Henry Morgenthau Jr. sat in the House Ways & Means Committee room one morning last week munching raisins. Beside him also munching raisins sat his chief tax expert, small, dun-colored Randolph Paul. Now & then they both drank water from a cone of paper cups piled beside a big water jug, while a battery of grey young Treasury experts, without benefit of raisins and water, periodically scrabbled for documents in accordion-sized brief cases. Morgenthau & Co. needed their vitamins: they had been up most of the night before, putting the finishing touches on the Treasury's recommendations...
Head of the biggest U.S. naval architecture firm (75% of all U.S. ships, merchant and naval), designer of the method of mass-producing Liberty ships, nine months ago Gibbs was drafted by WPB to head up the country's cargo shipbuilding program. Dour Designer Gibbs unwillingly went to Washington. There he ran head-on into the Maritime Commission which, with an eye on a postwar merchant marine (TIME, Aug. 23), had its own pet shipbuilding program'. Standardizer Gibbs hurled himself into battle. When he left Washington: ^ Merchant-ship types had been reduced from six to three, of which...
...Dour, puritanical President Pedro Ramirez had signed his 7,240th decree since taking office (TIME, June 14) and was still going strong. His Government was efficient as all get-out, but it was channeling Argentine lives into a path of righteousness and cultural uplift as they had never been channeled before...