Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Result: the Democrats, split, lost the State, and bumbling Republican Arthur James took over the political mess known as Pennsylvania. This year Joe Guffey, to whom unkind fellows refer as "the greatest Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania in 60 years,"* is in an exceedingly tough spot. First, he must be nominated, and the machine leaders he defied two years ago will have none of him. Last week the Democratic State Committee met in Harrisburg to pick a candidate to succeed Joe. From Washington came hurried word that another wide-open Democratic split would be disastrous. So, after whooping through a Roosevelt...
...WOOLLEY" : I was the first to mess...
...labor strike which had kept the port of San Francisco closed for 54 days. Exporters, importers, custom brokers, shipping lines picked up business where they dropped it last Nov. 10. Back to work went longshoremen, teamsters, the 1,300 waterfront clerks whose union started the whole futile mess by demanding that only C.I.O. clerks be hired. In a note to their editor, reporters and copy boys on the San Francisco News voiced the general sentiment of San Francisco: "PLEASE, BOSS, LET'S NOT HAVE ANOTHER STRIKE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME." Settlement of the strike gave C.I.O...
...some weeks that Neville Chamberlain would gradually make a series of Cabinet changes and last week he followed up his unpopular ousting of Go-getter Hore-Belisha by a popular ousting of Lord Macmillan from the post of Minister of Information of which he has made such a mess (TIME, Sept. 18). To take over the Ministry of Information the Prime Minister appointed Sir John Reith, "The Man Who Made The British Broad casting Corp." and whose deep voice the world heard introducing the abdication broadcast of Edward VIII. A strict moralist, nonsmoker, teetotaler and a man famed...
...financial journalist, Walther Funk made plausible at least to Germans, have in recent months been openly and flatly called harebrained. One National Socialist panacea followed another until it was recently rumored in Berlin that a Chinese economist named What Now was being brought in to clear up the Funk mess. Yet last week, Minister Funk was praised in no less a German economic journal than the semi-official Vierjahres-plan-for "an organization achievement of the greatest dimensions." The achievement: devising a General Economic Council which, in effect, kicked himself out as Germany's No. 1 Government economist...