Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day an angry Harry Truman snapped that this was "a contemptible statement and beneath comment," and the reporters could quote him. Wherry snapped right back: "The President's failure to remove Acheson, after repudiation of his stupid foreign policies, is contemptible...
...House-Senate conference over the $34.5 billion omnibus appropriation bill, Senate Appropriations Chairman Kenneth McKellar, ancient (81) Tennessee feudist, tangled with an old enemy-House Appropriations Chairman Clarence Cannon, 71. McKellar yelled that Missouri's Cannon was "blind . . . stupid . . . pigheaded" and altogether "goddamned." Cannon, who several years ago traded blows with New York's brass-lunged John Taber, started after McKellar. The tottering McKellar grabbed his long-handled gavel and got ready to swing. Colleagues managed to keep the two old cocks apart...
...abolish the separate medical services of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and establish a simple, unified medical command, directly responsible to the Secretary of Defense. Once established, the unified service must then be allowed to operate "without the blundering interference or control of other services, and without the stupid mismanagement of line officers...
Wrong Time of Day. But the Kremlin (so many of the Western experts think) just could not believe that the U.S. could be so stupid as to let Formosa fall. They believed the Washington statements on Korea, but they suspected a trap in the bland way the U.S. had informed the world that it would not help Chiang Kai-shek defend Formosa...
Despite his own success, Bill Levitt is no foe of public housing; he thinks it is still needed. And he thinks the "dog-in-the-manger" attitude of building associations against it is "stupid." Says Levitt: "Some public housing is necessary for the lowest income brackets. Private industry can't build profitably for them...