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...Planless Plan. The meeting began hopefully at 10 o'clock one morning. As the delegates sat down around OPM's long walnut conference table, a sense of urgency filled the room. From the side walls blazed posters: TIME IS SHORT; UNITED WE STAND. From the far end of the long room, a new portrait of Winston Churchill gazed down, stern and steadfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: OPM Flops Again | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...save that a number of important people have been able to see with their own eyes that Franklin Roosevelt is not equipped with two horns and a tail. Washington was last week agreed that so far as meeting the problem of recession is concerned, the Administration is just as planless as it was two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Co-Operacy | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...tremendous multiplicity of interests in this country which cause this shot fired round the world to hit the Lexington men in the back, without ever having found its mark in Washington. There is undoubtedly much fear and to-do in the South, West, and Middle-West; of the planless planning, the extravagance, and the new-booms-and-depressions of the Roosevelt regime. But the expressions of this are not going to come from the East, if at all. In the popular mind, the voice of the East is the voice of the Bankers, and the intensity of this feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINUTE MEN ON THE WESTERN FRONT | 4/20/1934 | See Source »

...might to be those of "order' and "current" Under the system of concentration and distribution the College became able to assimilate the oncoming groups of men entering the University year by year. The academic pattern thus arranged provided an ordered and balanced plan of study as important for the planless entrants as it has proved to be for those with a decided bias...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL'S RESIGNATION | 11/22/1932 | See Source »

...average man now feels toward its very name. Until the Socialists have bridged this gap between theory and practice and given assurance that control of business by experts can be brought about within the fabric of present system, they are not likely to make great progress against the planless but firmly entrenched older parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOCIALIST PROGRAM | 5/10/1932 | See Source »

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