Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Academy who teach military history have read with great pleasure "Greatest & Last Battle of a Naval Era" [Oct. 26]. The author of the story of Leyte Gulf has done a very fine job of condensing this great battle. Your organization most courteously provided for us copies of your similar treatment of the Battle of Midway. We have used Mr. Chapin's diagrammatic portrayal of that battle in our classrooms. It has been most helpful...
...Democratic pros, mindful of Adlai Stevenson's disaster when he tried to discuss the issue of national "drift" in 1956, were trying to avoid such words as "purpose" and "softness" in favor of Candidate Stuart Symington's line: "The people are not too flabby to do the job; they're just being misled." Yet Democrats could not convincingly fault Dwight Eisenhower's leadership without saying where they themselves wanted the nation to go. Inescapably, the debate would turn to purpose...
...self-help (TIME, Nov. 9). But there was no clear articulation of purpose. "Our leaders have not been able to give us a sense of direction," said Sylvan Meyer, editor of the Gainesville (Ga.) Times. "They've told us we have to sacrifice luxuries to carry out our job in the world. We're willing. But nobody tells us what to sacrifice and nobody tells us the purpose...
...union contention that the U.S. could easily satisfy its defense needs by channeling requirements to a few reopened mills, the court replied that it is not the job of the U.S., before applying for a Taft-Hartley injunction, to reorganize "the affected industry...
...give-'em-hell, revivalistic style that he calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching down the hand of comradeship and saying 'Come on up higher. You did a swell job down there on earth . . .' " By the time all the spizzerincta were spizzed out, Mayor Sensenbrenner was out of office. Winner, to everybody's surprise but his own, was lackluster Wallace Ralston Westlake, 52, independent Republican city council president. Westlake made a colorless "nice guy" campaign for better city...