Word: timing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Naval officers sided with the Admiral. They still had tongues in cheek when Charles Edison finally had the Navy award prizes for the best U. S. mosquito and subchaser designs (TIME, April 10), later let contracts to U. S. manufacturers for four 110-to 174-foot chasers eight 59-to 81-foot mosquitoes. Last week the Navy's Brass Hats ate crow. They conceded that: 1) their civilian Secretary was right, and 2) they now had to turn to the British for the best mosquito boats...
...activities were political, pictured him as the intellectual leader of a cause. As for thunder-stealing, said they, the New Deal's thunder was now a low faint rumble far over the hills. But everybody recognized that, whether talking politics or philosophy, the ex-President was spending his time these days with sturdy, middle-of-the-road Republicans-the Homer Bunkers, Frank Fetzers, Art Priaulxs -who seemed to stand not for big business ideas or reform, but for fishing, making money, listening to Herbert Hoover, and voting...
Philosophy. Time was when listening to Herbert Hoover was a role for the intellectuals and the economists. In his devastating The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Economist John Maynard Keynes had harsh judgments to make on most of the public men of the post-War days. But of Herbert Hoover he wrote: "This complex personality . . . with his habitual air of an exhausted prizefighter . . . imported into the Councils of Paris . . . precisely that atmosphere of reality, knowledge, magnanimity and disinterestedness which, if they had been found in other quarters as well, would have given us the Good Peace...
...time Herbert Hoover's Challenge to Liberty appeared in 1934, intellectuals by & large dismissed it as little more than an ex-President's attempt to defend his administration. That it incorporated Herbert Hoover's articulation of an intelligible theory of government, that his theory was deeply rooted in U. S. traditions, made little difference. Unlike other theoreticians and politicians who balked at this or that aspect of the New Deal, criticized methods, personalities, mistakes, costs, the ex-President made a flat issue of the New Deal's fundamental philosophy. It was not merely mistaken, said...
Personality. After the Hoover legends of the past ten years, Republicans meeting him for the first time are surprised to discover that he is a very able man and promptly conclude that he is badly maligned. He does not do the things that politicians are supposed to do: he cannot tell a joke, seldom even laughs at a good one and cannot go through the complicated ritual-throwing back the head, slapping the thigh-which immemorial tradition holds is the proper U. S. politician's response to a bad one. His handshake is no heartier than the usual political...