Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then, however, the single alternative to that program is American military support of the Civil War. Such support cannot save the fascistic Kuomintang and will only further estrange the liberals whose friendship is essential to the reconstruction of China along Western lines. In view of the present fiasco, the only realistic policy is to recognize Chiang's defeat and his inability to govern any longer...
Administration officials, not quite recovered from the Vinson fiasco, did their best to keep the whole affair a family secret. Mr. Steelman picked himself up, brushed himself off and tried to look both innocent and unruffled. "There was some talking back and forth when I presented the draft at the Pentagon," he recalled. "When the President goes off and leaves me in charge, I don't have time to pay much attention to little picayunish things...
...Securities and Exchange Commission came out fighting another round with Financier Cyrus Eaton. During the four-month investigation of his ole in the Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s $10 million underwriting fiasco (TIME, May 24), Eaton had tried to slow up SEC by ridiculing, cajoling, pleading and threatening, had finally gone into a clinch with a legal gimmick involving lawyer-client privilege. Last week SEC decided to try for a knockout. It ordered a hearing next month to decide whether Eaton's Otis & Co. should be allowed to stay in business...
Many a U.S. citizen experienced a sense of embarrassment as Harry Truman's campaign train headed into the far West. After his Omaha fiasco (TIME, June 14) the President of the U.S. seemed, for a few days, like a groggy fighter out in mid-ring with his eyes glazed and his hands down. He and his office took punishment from angry and shockingly undisciplined Democratic politicos, from a public which showed little interest in its distinguished visitor, and from Politician Harry Truman himself, a man with an unfortunate facility for slips of the tongue...
...would doubtless force stubborn Alf Landon out as delegation chairman. It meant that Darby-who is for Dewey on the first ballot-would make the decisions of the Kansas delegation at Philadelphia in June. Roberts, who has a reasonably tough hide, used to wince at reminders of his 1936 fiasco with Landon. Now, enjoying his role as a friendly enemy of Alf's, he pushed his belly back from his desk and nodded: "Fine. Fine...