Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repentant man had urged that some action be taken to get Communists out of key places in the Government. He had named names then, among them Alger Hiss's. He had said nothing about the stolen documents in his possession. "Nevertheless, I gave him [Berle] to understand that there was an apparatus working in the Government." Nothing came of Chambers' charges...
...that point, McCloy's career was clearly consistent and easy to follow. What happened next is harder-and more important-to understand. Within a few months of McCloy's arrival in Washington, Stimson got Roosevelt to appoint McCloy Assistant Secretary of War. If this was a "policy job," it had been given to a man who had little experience with either policy or politics. If it was an "administrative job," it had gone to a man with no experience of administration...
Pressure mounted again as last week's congressional elections approached. Throughout the campaign, Conservatives and Liberals in country districts fought it out with knife and gun (TIME, June 6). Conservatives could not understand why Ospina himself did not use force to win the election. Liberals, fearful that a Conservative triumph now would lead to a Conservative presidential victory next year, tried to embarrass the President by withdrawing their men from his cabinet...
...complete report on world news-especially because she could not count on receiving foreign news broadcasts clearly at home. Amik Zaharkian, 13, an Armenian, told me that he admired TIME'S style very much, but he thought that you had to be 'very well educated to understand it.' Steven Bochner, a 15-year-old Czechoslovakian, asked me to tell the editors to please put more foreign news in the overseas edition...
...Business cannot entirely escape responsibility for its environment," he said. "Business managers have the responsibility of keeping the community friendly toward business. This means that enterprises need to have top executives who understand the community, who are interested in its problems and sympathetic to its efforts to find solutions for these problems...