Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor, management, the press and many New Dealers were agreed: for this state of affairs, the Administration had itself to blame. Ever since the war's start, the U.S. wage and price policies have been an unintegrated mass of rulings and directives, administered by a group of mutually jealous boards and agencies. For 15 months, the Administration has stubbornly held the wage front along the Little Steel formula line; yet it cannot in truth defend the Little Steel formula against claims that living costs have risen 6.2% since May 1942, the formula's terminal. The formula...
...skillful administrator. Power-jealous Cordell Hull has been bringing more & more under State Department control the many agencies that deal with foreign countries. Last week even Foreign Food Administrator Herbert Lehman, who has been mumbling resignation, gave...
Army Orders. As the first note went into circulation the question popped up: Under what authority did the U.S. Treasury print a new type of currency? Coinage is the jealous right of Congress alone. The answer is in international law. A military commander in an occupied zone is the de facto government of the area. He can levy and collect taxes, issue money. The money was printed, not on orders of the U.S. Treasury, but on orders of the U.S. Army, which footed the printing bill...
...grin and bear it. Baldwin will continue to turn out his almost daily war column for his paper. He broke no Times precedent by going on the air, and the paper did not forbid his being billed as its military editor. But America's best newspaper is rightly jealous of its trained talent, would prefer not to share...
...French Caribbean island, cagey, white-goateed Admiral Georges Robert, had asked the U.S. "to fix the terms" for a change in the island's authority. To Martinique for negotiations hurried U.S. Vice Admiral John H. Hoover, commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier. After three years of jealous, stubborn defiance, cantankerous Robert seemed ready to turn over his tiny domain, with its gold, its barnacled ships and its rebellious, starving inhabitants, to the rule of the Committee of Liberation in North Africa...