Word: hindsighted
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...long after Samuel Insull fled Chicago for Greece, the power industry in a fine show of hindsight set out to reform its trade associations. In the public's mind the old National Electric Light Association was linked with unconscionable private propaganda and the name of the domineering Midwest utilitarian. Invoking the shade of their more saintly patron, the powermen reconstituted their body as the Edison Electric Institute. Leadership passed to the great power companies of the so-called Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright group-a shift calculated in those days to inspire nothing if not complete public confidence...
...Author. No one is more aware than Maxwell Anderson of the pitfalls of historical drama. Quibblers are quick to pick up anachronisms, inaccuracies. Realists find the playwright's exercise of hindsight irritating. Mr. Anderson's feeling about historical plays is that the form is only useful when it is related to a problem of the present...
...Dining Halls is an eminently sensible one; as guests they will do no more to destroy group unity than do visitors from other Houses, or the friends invited to a club. The other two innovations put forward, however, indicate both a lack of foresight and the absence of sufficient hindsight to consider the crys of previous Councils for House autonomy and House tradition. The disadvantages of introducing non-members of the Houses into the House teams and libraries are manifold: the libraries, often overcrowded now, will lose much of their value; the temptation to take rooms outside the Houses will...
...held at Washington Navy Yard, adjourned last week on a note of inconclusiveness. The court had yet to make its official finding, but the summation by Judge Advocate Lieut.-Commander Ralph G. Pennoyer was popularly regarded as prophetic. Said he: "If any action taken can in the light of hindsight be termed 'errors of judgment.' clearly they were without negligence or culpability. This disaster is part of the price which must inevitably be paid in the development of any new and hazardous art. ... In spite of all the testimony the court has heard it would appear that...
...Reserve member banks and 7,654 out of 11,435 State banks* recovered from the banking holiday and again doing unrestricted business, the executive council of American Bankers Association assembled in Augusta, Ga., to play golf on Bobby Jones's Augusta National golf course and exchange profundities of hindsight. The A. B. A. Economic Policy Commission took up the task of expressing the refreshed financial wisdom of those members who were still bankers. Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, famed economist-vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. (one of Cleveland's big banks that is open), author of his bank...