Word: jibes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator claimed, as part of his generous first-coat of red, that Lilienthal made no safeguards against foreign abuse of atomic power in the Acheson-Atomic Energy report, which Lilienthal helped to prepare. This claim does not jibe with the facts; Mr. Lilienthal subscribed to the gradual-surrender-of-secrets feature of the report which emphasized the need for security at each stage of expanding international control. Just as closely related to fact is "Mr. Lilienthal is one of those typical power-hungry bureaucrats who in recent years . . . have attempted to stretch their powers far beyond the limit of statutes...
...Paul newspaper man, friend of Harold Stassen, and an ardent internationalist, Joe Ball has been called a liberal. In 1944 he crossed party lines to support Franklin Roosevelt against Tom Dewey. But since then, organized labor has soured on him. Ball's belief in the individual does not jibe with labor's belief in the union. He has made it clear that he thinks organized labor has gained too much power...
...last week everybody had taken a crack at OPA. Congress had worn it down, making price boosts to jibe with a new set of rules. Ceilings on grain and dairy products had been knocked over the fence in the Price Decontrol Board's big inning. Last week it was the Department of Agriculture's turn to humble Washington's once-powerful price fixers...
...hard as he tried, Chester Nimitz never succeeded in explaining his reversal of position, or in making his arguments jibe with his new conclusions. Rather, they tended to justify his original promerger stand. Many of his suddenly real ized objections to merger were just as valid on Dec. 8, 1944. But now he said: "We should be certain that we do not destroy the strengths of our present sys tem in accepting a new and untried...
Energetic Embryo. So runs the Jackson legend. Now Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., son of the professor of American History at Harvard University, in a brilliant justification of the New Deal disguised as a history of the age of Jackson, says that the legend and the facts do not jibe at all. In 577 pages, he implies that the "Jacksonian Revolution," which finally drove the Federalists out, and brought entirely new social forces into political power in the U.S., was just the Roosevelt revolution in embryo. The social forces that broke the Federalists and the power of the "mercantile classes...