Word: shakeup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted had been achieved. Taxes, far from easing, were made tougher by an excess-profits tax and likely to grow more so. Government spending was multiplied; the 76th Congress appropriated more than $17 billions. Interest rates on capital continued to fall. The National Labor Relations Board underwent a personnel shakeup, but Wagner Act modification was less likely than ever. Government regulation in general, previously little more than a list of "Don'ts," began to turn into positive control. Every well-editorialized reason why Business should hold back was more conspicuous than ever...
...latest post was in the Mediterranean as No. 2 to Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, whose recent exploits have been strong tonic to Prime Minister Churchill and the entire nation. The Dakar fiasco, after which Mr. Churchill mentioned "accidents and some errors . . . disciplinary action," afforded excuse for a high command shakeup and it was wholly probable that Sir Charles Forbes took the rap for his underlings...
With Carl Seligman at stroke and Frank Snyder at seven, the only ones who have survived the shakeup, the boat as it went out yesterday has a long way to go to get in racing form. The contest will be close all down the course, and unless the Yardling eight can get together, the Engineers have a good chance of winning their first race over the Crimson this season...
Prime Minister Chamberlain agreed to air the whole progress of the war this week. Not a few commentators began predicting a thorough Cabinet shakeup...
LONDON--New rumors of a pending shakeup in the British cabinet coincided today with the first public criticism of Viscount Halifax an Foreign Secretary...