Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pearl Harbor occurred before Cabot could put his ideas into operation. His reputation as a trouble shooter prompted the War Department to ask for his services, and Cabot went to work as a civilian advisor to the Quartermaster Corps. His first big assignment was to straighten out a personnel problem at the Tank Automotive Center in Detroit. Discord among the four thousand men had been slowing up the plant's production. When Cabot got through, the plant ran smoothly again and everyone was content. He left the War Department in 1945, after successfully completing his government duties...
Students just entering the field nov will have the first line of the department. Elliott is still confusing some with his provocative and much advanced lectures on theory in Government 1, though a new text book helps straighten out neophytes. Cherington and Friedrich, however, will replace Holcombe in the next fall. This change should make what many considered the duller half of the required course, as interesting, perhaps more so than is, certainly just as mealy...
Then reporters wanted to know about Presidential Assistant Donald Dawson, whose honor, ethics and uprightness had been questioned in the RFC scandal, and who had so far avoided the chance to straighten it all out before the investigating Fulbright subcommittee. Had the President asked Dawson to go clear himself? That, thought the President, .was the committee's business not his. "You don't intend to fire Mr. Dawson from the White House?" No, said Harry Truman curtly, gesturing at Dawson sitting three feet behind him. Dawson was right there, wasn't he? That was all there...
...said, and gone to Florida for a vacation. There he got a call from RFC's Vice Chairman G. Edward Rowe. Rowe thought it "imperative" that he resign at once. "You just resign and say the committee crucified you," Rowe told him. "I think that will straighten out the whole matter." To be helpful, Rowe even dictated the letter for him, and left it on his desk for signature. Demanded Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart: "In other words, he wanted to make you the fall guy?" Said Dunham sadly: "I think that I was to be the goat...
...Keep your hands at your side!" cried his Staley College professor. "Speak up! Straighten...