Word: inferiorated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator McKellar justifies his plan with the contention that civil service conflicts with the letter of the Constitution, thus making a direct attack on the backbone of the U. S. government. He passed unnoticed the Constitutional provision that "the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior offices as they think proper in the heads o departments." In view of the excellent record which the civil service has had in the past, it would be absurd to revert from a satisfactory procedure to old and inadequate methods...
...significant." Apparently no battleship was lost, and probably not much in the way of cruisers or destroyers. Even the Tokyo radio changed its tune: it said that the U.S. had ten battleships, ten aircraft carriers and 20 heavy cruisers in the Solomons area, that the Japanese fleet was "numerically inferior...
Talent for Hiding. Marine and Army men returning from the South Pacific almost unanimously hold that, man for man, the Jap soldier is inferior in fighting qualities to the American. But in all the things to do with hiding, stealth and trickery, they give the Japs plenty of angry credit...
Civil War. Axis strategy in Yugoslavia, as elsewhere, has been to create disunity that would lead to the annihilation of "inferior" peoples. German agents supply arms to Slovenian "White Guard" militia who fight the Partisans. They support quisling regimes. As Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Moslems, Clericals, Communists and Democrats swelled the Partisan ranks, the Axis has supported anyone who would fight the Partisans...
Psychologically speaking, Mrs. Schumpeter believes that Nipponese might asserts the equality of a people which has always been treated as inferior. We can only hope here, she points out, that Japanese cruelty will arouse conquered nations such as has the Germans' in Europe...