Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was what Franklin Roosevelt had been waiting for. Now the President rolled up his verbal shirt sleeves, whammed one segment of the U.S. press smack on the end of its nose-for-news...
...Simple Segments. Al Browning's favorite rule is that "any problem can be solved if broken down into simple segments." There is plenty of simple-segment thinking in his contract termination policy. Instead of setting up inflexible rules, the policy leaves a lot to the common sense of the two men who know most about the contract and must settle it, i.e., the contracting officer and the manufacturer. One of General Browning's great problems: getting contracting officers with common sense and responsibility...
...Department No. 3 is that segment of U.S. foreign relations which Franklin Roosevelt reserves for himself, working through miscellaneous aides. This segment has expanded ever since the start of World War II, includes matters handled by Assis tant Secretaries Adolf Berle and Dean Acheson,and others handled by such quasi-foreign-relations agencies as OEW, OFRRO and the Nelson Rockefeller Committee...
...Sicily the Allies would find out how effectively, or ineffectively, the Duce had rallied one segment of his countrymen to Fascism's bedraggled banner. A fierce, choleric people, once given to brigandage and secret societies like the Maffia, the Sicilians did not readily take to Fascism. Italy's best haters, they have hated above all the Germans on their island soil...
Senator Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler was answered in such historic fashion because he was not speaking only for himself. The Prime Minister and the Senator both knew that Chandler was speaking for a substantial segment of American opinion when he rose in the Senate to argue that the U.S. should turn its chief present energies against...