Word: fiascos
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...campaign fund, hammered on the desk of the late John W. Weeks, then Secretary of War-and MacArthur got his promotion. But now it is not so easy. General MacArthur got in wrong at the White House for the way he slid out of responsibility for the air mail fiasco. Also the grand jury, investigating Army purchases, smeared him for rowing with Woodring. So the other day the White House sent to the War Department an OK for the reassignment of General G. B. Pillsbury as assistant chief of engineers. Like MacArthur. Pillsbury already had served four years on this...
Mindful of last autumn's fiasco with the 4th Liberty Loan redemption (TIME, Oct. 23) the Treasury could afford to take no chances. The interest rate offered was liberal. The maximum maturity of only 58 weeks was calculated to draw out money that was afraid to take long term risks. The offer was well calculated. By nightfall the subscription books were closed. Banks (which had nearly $1,000,000,000 of excess reserves) and other big buyers had nominally offered to take $3,415,000,000 of the 13½ month notes...
...freely using such words as bitch. Teresa, Sheridan, and Marcia are all well-drawn characters, easily recognizable. Yet in spite of this excellent delineation, in the big scene between Marcia and Sheridan, what should be a tensely dramatic situation turns all too easily into a saccharine and obviously adumbrated fiasco; mutual forgiveness between them finally comes when Marcia says, "I had hoped that when I passed away I could say, 'Thanks for a perfectly swell party...
...useless; those wise lads who know their way about realize that no one is ever flunked when there is the slightest chance of passing him. Ten minutes hard preparation would probably assure one of an A or a B. It is, in short, the most complete and perfunctory fiasco in Harvard College...
...that was forever dead and a new world that was not fully born, whom would the discerning and alert U. S. citizen pick as Man of the Year? Notably barren of candidates was the British Commonwealth. Pious Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's London Economic Conference was a notorious fiasco. In rapid succession, France dealt and discarded three Cabinets in twelve months, produced no leader sufficiently bold or capable to rescue her from the climbing quicksands of insolvency. In Russia Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was a hero for his success in bringing about . S. recognition...