Word: temperments
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...hundred and one years ago, as the U.S. approached the Mexican War of 1846, a Democratic editor found a defiant and memorable phrase: "Manifest Destiny." The phrase fitted the temper of the times, and salved the country's conscience: the U.S. was not really hijacking California from Mexico. It was destiny...
...Congress needed a further example of Presidential bad temper, it was supplied by New Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey (who was largely responsible for persuading the Senate not to accept Ed Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy). A month ago he had written the President about the grain shortage which was forcing New England farmers to slaughter their chickens. Said Senator Tobey: "This is a Macedonian...
...Disapproved, in a fit of temper, a mild Presidential plan for much-needed reorganization of Government bureaus...
...plain last week that Justice Robert Jackson's Nürnberg attack on Justice Hugo Black (TIME, June 17) was not the sort of thing which would blow over in a few days-or a few weeks. For it was not a gesture of sudden bad temper. It came as the result of a deep-seated feud which had long roiled the court with Internal turmoil and now brought it into public disgrace...
...very much want to let you know with how much interest, admiration and appreciation I have read the article on The Netherlands [TIME, May 13]. ... [Your] associates have done a splendid job, for not only have they accurately reported on the present temper of the country, but they also have caught quite a lot of the permanent essence of the Dutch nation, and expressed it in a very readable form...