Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat of the battle, harried Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, boss of Operation Crossroads, scheduled a press conference for 4 p.m. one day last week. He was going to announce the names of the military men and civilian scientists who would sit in judgment on the results. But before 10 o'clock that morning a call went to the Navy Department from the White House. The President wanted the announcement delayed. He was going to appoint an all-civilian board...
...noose was dangling over not only the General. If Ike's judgment could be trusted-that the Senators' recommendations would force the Army to abandon some of its overseas assignments-U.S. foreign policy was also in danger of strangulation...
Because he is deaf in one ear, McDonald believes that his judgment is less severe than it might be. To please his good ear, and the ears of thousands of Chicagoans, McDonald and Zenith have been spending $75,000 a year since 1940 supporting WWZR, an FM station which accepts no commercials, broadcasts nothing but music for 17½ hours...
Since The Great Departure, some of the MacLeish warnings undoubtedly have proved justified. During the war years Harvard may be said to have been characterized by a lack of serious thinking, a judgment which is based on the conversational level of students. Even in the best of circles, people were making mostly Tech talk--about how many bombs a B-24 could carry, and the strategy of the Italian campaign...
...inflammatory "attack," and the torch had been taken up by Jewish leaders who are usually responsible, by some who are usually not, and by comedians like Eddie Cantor (TIME, Jan. 14). Even the New York Times had tossed some faggots on the blaze. Its off-the-cuff editorial judgment of General Morgan's remarks: "It was an insult to six million tortured dead." Walter Winchell, who writes for the Hearst press, said it louder: "Morgan must not only be fired, he must be repudiated by His Majesty's, Government and stripped of his uniform...