Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, who is always getting crossed up, got crossed up with one of his warmest friends-earnest, tight-lipped John Snyder. Mr. Truman had boasted that by the end of the year the U.S. budget would be in balance. But Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, after making his calculations, said: "There will be a deficit of $1.9 billion." Last week at his press conference Mr. Truman said crisply that there was no real difference between Mr. Snyder and himself. Snyder must have been misquoted. Said loyal John Snyder: "President Truman said there was no difference between us. I reiterate...
Among supporters of A.A.: General Robert E. Wood, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., once earnest chairman of America First; Lammot du Pont, chairman of the board of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., arch Republican, anti-New Dealer and Liberty Leaguer...
...bluff Secretary General Trygve Lie patted the earnest, scholarly delegates on the back, praised "the spirit of agreement that I have found in this council." But he worried because U.N. agencies were using paper at the rate of 1,000,000 sheets a day to produce tentative findings and recommendations which might never get beyond the paper stage...
...West Coast, where earnest protestations of purity bloom all year round, U.C.L.A. had come up with a fabulously strong team. Down in Texas, where they shoot folks for even hinting at subsidization, Texas U. had a team that might be the best in the land-and, possibly, the glittering exception in 1946's pigskin dollar derby...
...story of the 20th Century too vast and confusing for the men who were trying to report it? Earnest, grey-haired Sevellon Brown thought the answer was an emphatic Yes. Like many a publisher with a conscience, he had an uneasy feeling that the press was falling down on its job. The daily montages of headlines, in his Providence Journal and Bulletin and elsewhere, were nagging proof that the times demanded better papers, bigger and broader newsmen-on penalty of chaos...