Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long could the Administration wear two faces at once? Like most masks, it did not fool the enemy and only encumbered the wearer, making it hard for him to step lively and surely. If Russia did not want a world war now (as the Administration assumed), then it could only holler at increased U.S. mobilization; if Russia did indeed want war, it would never be at a loss for pretexts to start one. It was elementary prudence to get readier for Armageddon-or more Koreas...
Things might have been different if the_South Koreans had had their U.S. advisers at elbow. Some time ago, hardbitten Brigadier General William (Bill) Roberts, commander of KMAG (the U.S. Korean Military Advisory Group), had said to his men: "Don't fool yourselves. If war comes, you fellows are going to be the battalion and regimental commanders of this army." Unfortunately, last week Bill Roberts was out of the country, headed for the U.S. His subordinates in Korea may have been ordered by Washington to evade capture at all costs. In any case, the U.S. coaches were...
Died. Max Radin, 70, Polish-born legal scholar, longtime (1919-48) teacher of law at the University of California; in Oakland. An outspoken Brandeisian liberal, good friend of New Deal Legalists Felix Frankfurter and Thurman Arnold, Radin once said: "The law is not a bag of tricks that any fool can learn and any rascal can apply, but an attempt at coordinating the methods by which some social mechanism can enforce right dealing between...
...months can an investor in the higher income brackets take advantage of the long-term capital gains tax, thus pay only 25% on his profits instead of an income tax up to 82%. None of these restrictions and safeguards means that investors can not lose. In Wall Street, a fool can still be separated from his money as fast as anywhere else. But to date, the bull has been a well-behaved animal. How long will he remain...
Born in Rochester in 1912, "Dick" Harari had "a routine academic training" there and later a modern schooling under Fernand Léger and Marcel Gromaire in Paris. Back in the U.S. he did both realistic landscapes and abstract murals for the WPA, exhibited fool-the-eye still lifes at the Museum of Modern Art and sold an abstraction to the Whitney Museum before he discovered his flair for commercial work...