Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Look magazine has not been among the admirers of General Douglas MacArthur. In an article two years ago, his occupation regime was ticked off as "highhanded and inept." Last week, as might be expected, a Look article said that MacArthur should be removed from command because of the reverses in Korea. As might also be expected, the writer of the article was the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Homer Bigart, who has been harshly critical of MacArthur's conduct of the war from the beginning...
...light little novel, It's Only Temporary. Whenever he sticks to impressionistic sketches of packaged postwar living, his book is amusing. But since It's Only Temporary is also supposed to be a novel, Mergendahl feels obligated to write about people. The result is a soupy and inept story about Veteran Don Cousins and his wife Shelley, who cannot decide whether to save money by sticking to Camptown and his job or take the long chance of striking out for Montana and starting a business of their own. It turns out to be a case of dull people...
Republicans had watched the President's entire maneuver with a wary and disappointed eye. In the sacking of inept Louis Johnson and the appointment of Marshall, a political issue was being snatched right from under their noses. When Virginia's Harry Byrd, a Democrat but no Administration man, rose to plead for the amendment ("I challenge any man who opposes this nomination to propose a better one"), Republicans leaped...
...first glance it appeared that the President was making a low bow to RFC's critics. There was no doubt that RFC's management had been sadly inept under Chairman Hise. And his vague explanations about some of RFC's multi-million-dollar loans during his regime had satisfied practically nobody...
...Washington gossiped that RFC's inept management had not been the only reason for the President's head chopping, especially since some of RFC's biggest blunders (e.g., Lustron) had been made under White House pressure. Another probable cause was the fact that both Gunderson and Hise had opposed Truman's plan to transfer RFC to the Commerce Department. Furthermore, Gunderson had bucked Truman's plans to aid small business with federal loans; Gunderson thought that a cut in taxes would help far more...