Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen wondered if Harry Truman might go one historic step farther and do the politically unthinkable: let Donaldson pick his postmasters out of the ranks, on merit, They inquired hopefully about his life, his friends, his foibles and hobbies-and found that he is a very unpolitical person. They did learn that he is a registered Democrat, a Methodist, and a Mason; that he likes flashy ties, and sometimes closes a conversation as he would a letter with "Yours very truly." They also learned that, in his off hours, he pores over a stamp collection...
...many a Briton, Prime Minister Mackenzie King seemed less a personality than a symbol of a generous Canada that had time & again stood beside the mother country. Said the London Times when he received the Order of Merit: "He has been loyal to Canada, loyal to the Commonwealth, and loyal also to a larger vision of the brotherhood of humanity...
Profitable Deals. Fellow officers had known Benny Meyers as the sharpest man with figures that the Air Forces had. He received the Legion of Merit for devising the wartime system of production controls and scheduling. One top-ranking officer declared: "Without Benny we would not have had the 6-29s when we wanted them...
...generally been involved wherever the police could get a line on a crime. But to calm observers it seemed that the crime wave-if it was one-could be blamed on the police rather than on any racial group. The force has had four chiefs in five years. Its merit system doesn't work. There is lack of cooperation between the cops and the courts; hoodlums with long records walk the streets on low bail. One man even drove a truck for the city while out on bail in a rape case...
...President's Certificate of Merit for his patriotic wartime movies-presumably including The North Star, which got such a lambasting at the congressional investigation of Little Red Hollywood...