Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss, Harry Truman, was a little disappointed by the way the Vinson business had turned out (TIME, Oct. 18), and had decided to try something else. So White House advisers, including the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, cooked up another idea to spring at a strategic moment in the political campaign...
Actually, stripped of its more startling "whereases," the order was a rehash of some of the recommendations made last summer by Assistant Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray with the idea of strengthening the nation's debilitated reserves. The Truman order called for little more than: 1) better reserve training programs, 2) more facilities for Army and Air Force Reserve Corps and the National Guard...
...rested for a couple of decades under some tarpaper on the Moran lawn. The library didn't know quite what to do with it. The Ladies Village Improvement Society, which sponsors an annual summer fair on the village green, had an idea. Next summer's merry-go-round and hay rides will have strong competition: gondola rides on the village pond...
Elaine Tanner '50, president of the Radcliffe League for Democracy, also considered the proposal, and agreed it was "a good idea...
Goldovsky is a man with a big idea--an idea which he has conceived, developed, and brought to flower in less than a decade. He has done a great deal himself; but his real contribution cannot be weighed until his young actors reach maturity and the people who pay for music in this country realize that they must play ball with him to keep opera going...