Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaten every effort of the U.A.W. to dislodge him from municipal office. He should be able to cut significantly into Williams' all-important Wayne County margin. But between the cup and the lip, only hard G.O.P. organization work, says Feikens, can prevent a slip like the fiasco of 1954, when Williams won by 253,000 votes over Republican Donald Leonard. "If we're going to get down on the mat with these guys," says John Feikens, "we can no longer afford part-time politics...
Republican responsibility for the Powell amendment fiasco seems fairly definite--ninety-six Republicans in the House voted for the Powell amendment and against the bill. Whether, as the Democrats claim, Eisenhower might have prevented this devious behavior is open to question. It is possible that Ike's inaction on the question was based on his principle of "quiet leadership," although on other issues he has exerted himself conspicuously. One factor in this particular disintegration of White House leadership was the President's somewhat disabling post-operation convalescene at the time. Whatever the cause, by allowing Republican legislators to play political...
...worn off somewhat," the President's record as "not impressive, and the Republican party as basically unchanged." Recalling Eisenhower's promises in the last campaign, Handlin said that except for the resolution of the Korean conflict, "every effort to implement the campaign promises of 1952 has led to fiasco...
...this afternoon at 3 p.m. on the Business School Field. Dave Rintels, who scored the one goal against Deerfield, and Dick Eldridge, who assisted, will lead the attack. Captain Dick Pille will nurse his dislocated shoulder, and Paul Keaney will soak his sprained ankle--both relics from the Deerfield fiasco...
...Dixon-Yates "fiasco," which "the Government initiated . . . and defended for some 19 months and then abandoned and repudiated in the face of political attack by the partisans of socialized power, even though the preceding Administration had executed two similar contracts which were not as advantageous...