Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depth of the cut was a surprise to some of the top Republican leaders. It might mean lopping some $2 billion from War and Navy Department budgets. Secretary Patterson said this would cripple the Army; Secretary Marshall said it would cripple the occupation of Germany and Japan; Secretary Forrestal said it would cripple the Navy. South Dakota's Chan Gurney, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, agreed with the Cabinet members...
...Weather. Thousands of Britons were not as badly off as the Chimeses were in the first week of The Crisis, but millions were. Every Briton had his own personal crisis as the underlying fact of his nation's woefully low coal production was brought to a head by mean, frosty, snowy, windy weather. The Crisis itself had been a stunning blow (TIME, Feb. 17). Now, as it deepened, it was worse in many ways than the blitz at its worst: it hit everybody. The Government extended its five-hour domestic power switchoff and blackout of cities, villages, industries from...
Precisely what this can mean has been demonstrated in capsule scale during the past month in Michigan, where newly-elected Governor Kim Sigler declared war in Michigan Youth for Democratic Action, an affiliate of American Youth for Democracy. When the administration of Michigan State College made membership in its tiny AYD chapter a probationary offense, 22 faculty members representing 11 departments and 27 students representing 16 organizations jumped into action immediately at the nearby University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to form a Committee for Academic Freedom. The broad base of this solidified campus hostility is mild indication of what...
From a purely political view, what do these alternatives mean? The food that will be sent to Europe following the Student Council drive early in March cannot be termed simply as "Following the flag." It is cruel to starving humans to weigh them as pawns in the great gambit for ideological control of key areas. But this food remains American food, distributed to highly sensitive and alert students in areas where food means more than dialectics. If we are not concerned over what happens to the young men of east Europe and China, there are others who will thrive...
...mean looking fellow, and obviously a fraud," was the impression of William T. Gardiner '14 last night. Detective Edward Glennon of the municipal force, detailed to the case, felt sure that the furtive caller must be wanted on some charge...