Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Managing the Team. In another, subtler way Clifford also made his influence felt. The President likes to boast that he has the best Cabinet since Rutherford B. Hayes.* At least two members of his Cabinet-George Marshall and James Forrestal-are men of unusual ability and integrity. Certainly Mr. Truman's Cabinet works together without any audible bickering. The President thinks of them as a "great team." But a team is no good without a good manager. The nine Cabinet members work in as many different fields; there are bound to be serious differences of opinion. When the Truman...
World War III would come a lot closer if world Communism grew in power to the point where it felt able to attack the U.S. Since World War II ended, Communism's power had grown faster than any rise in Hitler's power between 1933 and 1939. The Communists were not the X in the equation. Their intention to rule the world had been proclaimed a thousand times, and their strength under various circumstances could be fairly accurately forecast. The unknown quantity was the Western world. How seriously would the West try to resist the Communist expansion...
Other parties felt bewildered and let down; hence the week's real surprise came Friday when they stuck to their guns, and Agrarians, Liberals and Conservatives, controlling 86 of the 200 parliamentary votes, notified President Paasikivi that they opposed treaty negotiations with Russia. Considering Finland's geographical and political position, these 86 showed plenty of courage...
Last week the darkness proved deeper than even the Russians supposed. High-ranking officers in the Red army were reported to be neglecting their Marx and Lenin, and the official army paper Red Star felt obliged to issue a warning. "Soviet generals," it announced, "who fail to pursue such studies will lose out in assignments to responsible military posts." In Britain, where the Lords this time were debating Communist aggression in Western Europe, Lord Pakenham had a word of enlightenment about that as well...
...alone wanted $167 million; Columbia needed $100 million. Harvard thought it could make do with $90 million. To refurbish the Mark Hopkins log at Williams (at a cost of $2,500,000), President James Phinney Baxter III spent 24 days in one recent month chasing dollars outside Williamstown. (He felt, he said, like an "itinerant mendicant...