Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategists. Sensitive as weather vanes to political currents, they felt an upsurge of Democratic feeling. Franklin Roosevelt's trip had been as unpolitical as Franklin Roosevelt can make any appearance. He had stimulated political feeling in his own masterful way, by brilliantly dissociating himself from the entire Washington mess, in the press conference at which he blamed Congress, the press, and his own Administration for all the faults the people had found. The strategists felt that the Republican trend which had been noticed everywhere (TIME, Oct. 12) had now been stopped...
Author of this plan was Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. President Conant and a fellow member of the three-man committee that had cleared up the rubber mess, M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, joined in warning the nation that it could no longer delay clearing up its college manpower mess. Taking issue with Army men who had declared that all students were destined for the armed forces, they pointed to the urgent need for experts in war industry. Said President Compton: "My own experience with the scientific program of the Government and the technical problems...
...much-touted belief in production winning the war may yet prove to be even more hooey than it has so far. Mass can quite easily become mess-if it hasn't done so already. Personally, I have more faith in quality than in quantity, a faith that the showing of two good planes and the oft-mentioned-via Churchill-few good men helped strengthen. Next came the Zero, an unusual plane and a good one, in that it was not constructed according to the orthodox pattern. Then came Rommel and his few, good high-velocity guns. And what will...
...known to the world at large for his conviction that the earth is "flat as a pancake"-a belief he still held after a round-the-world cruise. In 1910 he got control of all Zion's real estate and industries. His financial affairs got into a tangled mess in the early '30s, receivers were appointed, and he lost most of his power...
...that moment, on Capitol Hill, Administration stalwarts sweated blood to get the President's inflation bill passed. In his demand for a law by Oct. 1, the President had put Congress on a spot. Most leaders felt that the price-control mess was as much his fault as Congress'. For a year he had done little more than they to control inflation and they felt he had passed the buck to them. And now particularly, when they had just whipped the farm bloc in a bitter battle, the President's words were like the slash...