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Word: method (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experience has shown that the "committee method" exemplified by the Joint Chiefs of Staff is no substitute for truly unified direction. Even under the stress of war, said the Chief of Staff, agreement among the Joint Chiefs was reached "at times only by numerous compromises and after long delays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: War between the Services | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...method was unusual in an administration long used to government by executive agencies. He announced that he had harnessed his Cabinet members and other top administrators to the job of pushing and pulling balky Congressmen toward the legislation he wants. To each of his executive family the President had assigned the responsibility for specific parts of his program. To each (except Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, Attorney General Tom Clark and Postmaster General Robert Hannegan) the President had sent a letter outlining the legislation for which he would be held accountable in researching and drafting bills, presenting testimony to committees, promoting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Push and Pull | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...addition to oil, Anglo-Norwegian whalers hunting near their home ports hope to bring back whale meat for butcher shops, boast that a new method of quick freezing makes it as tender and tasty as beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thar She Blows! | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...that it can conform to the law, and maybe help ease the housing shortage, by selling the units to private builders who agree to: 1) demolish the units and move them from present sites; 2) use some of the salvaged material for entirely new houses. FPHA will show the method of recovery at a 20-acre "showcase" exhibit to be erected at Silver Springs, Md., in mid-December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Surplus & Shortage | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...President, spokesman for the U.S. people, this week made a speech that touched about the sorest U.S. problem-strikes in industry. He offered no new method of solution, but what he said made plain sense to most U.S. citizens. At the American Legion County Fair in rural Caruthersville, Mo., the President said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Homily | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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