Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This man, Admiral King, is also an airman, as is his chief of operations, Rear Admiral Home. The Navy also undertook to tear down the walls between its many jealous bureaus (Ordnance, Supplies, Medicine, etc.) by putting all procurement under one man, Admiral Robinson. Symptomatically, in the naval building program, aircraft carriers, submarines, cruisers and destroyers have a new prominence. So has speed in all ships...
...Marks The Spot. The men on Capitol Hill, jealous of their old prerogatives, clinging to their oldtime dignity, were bewildered and sore hurt. They were tired of being laughed at. Yet they did not wonder why they no longer commanded respect; instead they seized upon the press. Louisiana's Representative F. Edward Hebert warned darkly: "Unless something is done to curb that section of the press which holds in ridicule the keystone of democracy . . . our whole system of Government is going to collapse." Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead accused disrespectful newspapers of "sedi-tious conduct," cried...
...fond of carrying exclusive stories on the war situation written by famed columnists and correspondents. But what is the use of exclusive stories concerning far off developments when Hub papers seem not even able to cover their own stamping ground? Boston papers have, in their editorial pages, shown themselves jealous guardians of wartime freedom of the press. But what good is freedom of the press when the press freely abuses that freedom...
Timetrials are funny things; as anyone who has laid any money on a crew only on the basis of a single clocking will probably ruefully admit. In spite of their apparent worthlessness, however, the Crimson coaching staff is as jealous about the Varsity's latest clocking over the Henley as Dick Harlow is about some of the darker secrets of his latest illegitimate T formation...
...Robinson's job was strictly a post-Pearl Harbor development. For 80-odd years the Navy's tiers of bureaus-Bureau of Ordnance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, etc.-had functioned like little feudal states. Bureau chiefs were jealous, prerogative-minded, ensnarled in procedure. Many a Secretary of the Navy talked wistfully about simplifying the Navy, but nothing was done until Pearl Harbor rocked Frank Knox. The two-ocean Navy, due for completion in 1944, was needed in 1942. Panting for construction speed, Knox created a new Office of Procurement and Material...