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...came close to being runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928). The two criteria for the choice are always these: Who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did most to change the news for better (like Stalin this year) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...
...just such dangerous preoccupation with its own troubles that turned the National Association of Manufacturers' annual meeting into a gloomy near-flop last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 14). But last week N.A.M.'s new President Frederick Coolidge Crawford echoed the constructive half of Mr. Lippmann's thesis. Up to then tall, lean Frederick Crawford had been noted mainly for his spectacular rise from hot-dog-stand owner at Harvard to mile-a-minute president of Cleveland's Thompson Products, Inc. His interest in political economy has been confined to loathing the New Deal...
...many a U.S. banker it seemed that Mr. Bracken would have been smarter to compare Mr. Morgenthau to the late Andrew Mellon, whose astute Government financing was marred by the market flop of the famous Mellon issue of 3% bonds in 1931. For Mr. Morgenthau went to London just after he had had an equally outstanding failure...
...scientist, Colonel Isker built a solid reputation in the cavalry by always feeding his men the best there was. He went to the Q.M.C. Subsistence School in 1934, later became commanding officer of the laboratory. Not all his experiments have been successful. Tomato bread, for example, was a flop...
Franklin Roosevelt finally admitted that the Price Control Act had proved a flop, because the Administration was afraid to crack down on wage inflation and Congress was afraid to stop farm inflation. He had a feeling, he told his press conference, that the nation was being whipsawed between labor and farm groups. Without prompt action, food prices might rise another 30%, the cost of living would get out of hand. So he was ready to stabilize both wages and farm prices. The best guarantee that he meant what he said was that he arranged to break the news...