Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patches for War. The difficulties all stem from an economic system the advisers are not empowered to change. At best, they can only do a patchwork job on the facade of Persia. If they can make the patches stick long enough to get Persia's important job of war supply done, they will have earned their keep and the thanks of the Allies...
...patronage for the local party bosses, and provide for a return to the unsavory politics o the Jackson and Grant administrations. The corruption and inefficiency consequent from mass appointments was realized when Andrew Jackson's friends tracked mud into the White House and into government agencies. A "big stick" in the hand of Teddy Roosevelt sponsored the infancy of civil service, but the verbal discipline of Franklin Roosevelt has not sufficed to prevent the rebirth of the old child of confusion...
...last week, Donald Marr Nelson fired one of his Vice Chairmen-square-jawed Ferdinand Eberstadt, spunky champion of the Army's theory that WPB must stick to materials control, thus indirectly control production. To another Vice Chairman, hornyhanded, hard-working Charles E. Wilson, chief advocate of the right of civilian review of all war production, Nelson virtually relinquished full powers...
...General Electric Co.'s President Charles Wilson is one of the country's outstanding production engineers. In WPB he concentrated on production schedules. In a few short weeks he had cut in on Eberstadt, cut in on the military. The armed forces protested, told WPB it should stick to the stuff that guns are made...
...work week was the first move in Jimmy Byrnes's fight to stem the whole inflation tide. Same day the order was announced, WLB turned down the request of 180,000 meat packers for a wage increase. It was clear that the Administration has now definitely decided to stick by the Little Steel formula, come hell or high water. The new work week, with its overtime pay, was an effort to make all future wage demands appear unpatriotically selfish...