Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will note that this letter is signed by General Martinez as a simple citizen and not as President of the Republic. Contrast his attitude with that of the fuss made by our Senators and Congressmen and others in position over "X" cards, so well described in the last two or three Air-Express editions of TIME...
...brake on all-out war production by resisting all-out conversion of civilian industries to war work. In particular, Guthrie named Philip D. Reed, $120,000-a-year chairman of General Electric, $1-a-year head of the Bureau of Industry Branches. WP Boss Donald Nelson, embarrassed by the fuss, asked the Truman Committee to investigate...
...President had delayed for months before picking a man to head a new super-press bureau: the Office of War Information. Last week he finally summoned 52-year-old Elmer Davis to the White House, told him without fuss & feathers that he had been drafted for the job. Calm Mr. Davis, who dislikes fuss & feathers, took the President's order calmly. Two days later he made his last news broadcast. Two days after that he went to work in Washington...
Elmer Davis likes to say that his broadcasts are successful because his voice "sounds like it came from back home." When he went on the air for the last time, he ended, without fuss & feathers: "This is my last broadcast as I have been called into Government service...
...heretofore unheard-of-ships. The Navy, whose own information is strewn about in mimeographed charts, blueprints and cumbersome data sheets, ordered copies by the gross to instruct boot and admiral alike on what's in the Navy. Navy men tell Fahey that he saves them a lot of fuss, filing and paper shuffling...