Word: ignoramuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-confessed ignoramus about publishing, Engineer-Editor Lasley regards money-making as no bar to respectable publishing. Last week he broke with PM's ad-less tradition by selling space in Parade's Tennessean section to the Nashville Gas & Heating Co. Later, if present progress continues, he plans a fat ad budget. He continues to function as efficiency expert, selling ideas to a soap and a steel company. But he shows no inclination to retire as editor of Parade, no matter if it makes a million...
...Reuther? Walter Reuther is no Ford, no Knudsen. Neither is he an ignoramus about the automobile industry. A skilled tool-&-die maker for 13 years. he was once good enough to be foreman of a Ford tool-&-die shop. Meantime he studied economics in a university night school, later taught toolmaking in Russia. China, Japan, now knows the automobile industry union-side...
...agreed with him last May, after the first flush of German air triumphs in Norway, would have meant that the admirals yielded an inch or so in the hot controversy between sea and air power. Naval officers in Washington privately suggested that Mr. Edison was a bit of an ignoramus. Charles Edison was glad enough to turn his portfolio over to Pub lisher Frank Knox and get elected Governor of New Jersey...
...years from Anno Domini 1800 to Annum Domini 1940 have been the period in which he has moulded mankind as never before. This flat statement, a shock to many who have long accepted the glib belief that "the world is drifting away from Christianity," was not made by an ignoramus. It was made by Kenneth Scott Latourette. Professor of Missions and Oriental History at Yale University. Three years ago Dr. Latourette started writing a monumental six-volume History of the Expansion of Christianity. He made his flat statement last week in Anno Domini: Jesus, History, and God (Harper...
Unlike changes in government personnel, which almost always come for reasons which are obvious to everyone, changes in military command are not always so clear. For every new general is always officially an erudite bear cat until he is succeeded. Then he becomes an ignoramus and a scared...