Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four hours after his arrival. Wiedemann was aboard a plane bound for Washington. There, too, reporters were told they could not talk to him, would not be told why he had been brought to Washington. Best guess: Hitler's onetime personal adjutant was to be a star witness at war crimes trials of top Nazis...
...Politicians. Korea today has al most no politics, and legions of politicians. Seventy-odd parties stepped up to be counted at General Hodge's request. The best guess is that they will shake down to three: 1) a "democratic" party, conservative and nationalist; 2) an extreme left-wing party, Communist-dominated ; 3) a middle or pinkish party, claiming a position comparable to Labor's in Britain...
Woodrow Wilson: "a Presbyterian baboon"; Herbert Hoover: "a superior bookkeeper"; Harry Truman: "an 8th Ave. haberdasher"; Douglas MacArthur: "a big show-off"; Henry Mencken: "I guess I'm an old cadaver...
...guess my bellows are overstretched from holding those long ones," he said...
Unlike the plans of Ruml-Sonne, the Committee for Economic Development, et al., the committee makes no guess at what the national income may be, come normal times. What it does do is set up three different budgets of $15, $18 and $22 billion based on national incomes of $115, $125 and $140 billion. Then it drafts alternative plans of raising revenue to meet the budgets in a way to provide the greatest incentive for business to make jobs and employment. The committee's idea was that federal spending must be cut, that the budget must be balanced yearly...