Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stupid," protested Pennsylvania's new Democratic Governor David Lawrence, longtime National Committeeman. Among those who agreed were New York's Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, and Illinois' veteran National Committeeman Jack Arvey. In ragged unison the powerful Democratic old pros were warming up for a free-for-all fight at the next full meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington. Subject of fight: the National Committee's site-selection committee and its choice of Los Angeles as the place for next year's convention (TIME...
Most of the Dulles conference was devoted to discussion of the German reunification problem. The Secretary had characterized as "brutal" and "stupid" the latest Russian proposals for reunifying Germany, had restated his adherence to U.S. policy on Germany: "We believe in reunification by free elections.'' Late in the conference (the 26th question), the Newark News's able Reporter Arthur Sylvester spoke...
...this point, Kono's enemies recalled another Japanese proverb: "Nobody is more stupid than the man who allows his pot to be stolen on a moonlit night...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14--President Eisenhower offered an opinion today that "we would more than be a little stupid" not to believe that the Soviet Union is outstripping the United States in some phases of missile development...
...Soviet Union's proposal to isolate and demilitarize Germany is not only brutal, as West German Chancellor contended Monday, but "it's a stupid approach because we don't think it will work...