Word: imbroglio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the informal practice started last Monday when 13 men turned up, yesterday's two hour imbroglio began the first full team participations of the Spring. Six veterans of the 1947 Varsity battles appeared plus 13 Freshmen and several Jayvees, while managers expected coaches to show up later in the week...
...Athens' Acropole Palace Hotel, a U.N. commission was hearing witnesses on Greece's imbroglio with her northern neighbors. From Washington came an Olympian statement from Secretary of State Marshall, welcoming Greece's new coalition Government but warning that it must put Greece's chaotic house in order before it could expect more U.S. help...
...President Roosevelt indirectly confirmed the impression that the U.S. had fathered the plan. He said that the Gaullists knew about it all along. He added that they had not approved the plan, but had not rejected it, either. Evidently, in this as in other aspects of the French imbroglio, Britain had reluctantly followed the U.S. lead while the French stood off in a corner...
...what roads had Sparks, Briggs, and the Secretary of the Interior come to this imbroglio? Sparks, once mayor of Akron, had managed Frank E. Gannett's 1939-40 Presidential campaign. Briggs, once a newspaperman, later a political "dopester" for a handful of Minnesota business firms, handled the northern midwest area of the Gannett campaign under Sparks. When Gannett lost, Briggs changed camps. He became a pal of the Democrats. Ickes, asked by reporters last week if the story was true that he had met Briggs through Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly, replied...
...this question the ranks of business began dividing. One school looked back-back to the demobilization of 1918, back to the '20s, back to the labor-government-industry imbroglio of the '30s. The other school, the school typified by Prince of General Electric, by Hoffman of Studebaker, and by Kaiser, looked forward to the creation of post-war jobs and employment ; to a better cooperation with government; to an implementing of Franklin Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter and a system of world security. The issues would not be decided until 1944. But 1943 was not too soon...