Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely different has left some citizens nonplussed. But the explanation is fairly simple. Actually, Congress never had any intention of letting the Military Establishment tell it what to do. Like any other national program, this one, in the end, was going to be put together by the usual method of horse-trading, wrangling and compromise...
...this method insure getting the best of all possible defense programs? Critics of Congress pointed to the lawmakers' ignorance of a highly specialized business* and to the fact that politics were bound to color their views; e.g., their prejudice against universal military training. Supporters of Congress pointed out that it was simply following the usual democratic method which, in the long run, the U.S. held to be the best method...
Confusion. Whatever the arguments, by last week this method had produced little but confusion on the two major phases of the program-airpower and manpower. Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal had first asked Congress for a "balanced military force" built around a 55-group air force. Then Congress began talking of a 70-group air force, and the House passed a bill appropriating the money to get it going. Last week Secretary Forrestal, hastily inventing a pudding during the meat course, recommended a 66-group program. To his original 55 groups he would add one fighter group and ten heavy...
...VariType crews working. Then Woodruff Randolph, I.T.U. president, demanded that the I.T.U. be granted jurisdiction over VariType operators. This would make it impossible for the papers to put out a VariType issue if the printers struck. The papers flatly refused. They had no intention of giving up the first method yet found to counter printers' strikes...
Criticized on the grounds that he "writes to himself" in his war poetry, Ciardi frankly admits it. "Poetry has to deal with the immediate," he says, defending his method with the argument that every serviceman was thinking of the same things in personal terms. "There was more collective consciousness in the Army than in any other group," and yet, he admits a little ruefully, "you still can't reach across to anybody else...