Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid Laborite howls M.P. Hopkinson went on to call Labor Minister Ernest Bevin "an unskilled laborer,"* unfit to handle the complex problems of labor organization. Said Hopkinson: "The labor question has been grossly mishandled for the last twelve months. . . . The whole thing is chaos from top to bottom...
...Angeles, Edward Price Richards, 29, who registered for the draft last fall and was classified as 4-F (physically, mentally or morally unfit) petitioned the Superior Court to change his name to Barbara Ann Richards. Reason: he has given up his job, begun to stick around the house, stopped shaving six weeks ago (his beard had stopped growing) and felt he just had to change to women's clothes...
...histories of wars are red with tales of unfit officers whose incompetence cost other men their lives, and their country, battles. Such tales there are bound to be after the next U.S. war, and many of them will be true. For, in the last analysis, war is the only sure test of an Army. This is a fact that every soldier knows, even if he does not speak...
...make the test rapidly effective, General Marshall wanted authority to rip away the red tape which hedges many an unqualified officer. By law, officers who are found unfit by reclassification ("B") boards may cling to a long and cumbersome appeal procedure before they are finally ousted. Congress last week was asked to cut this cackle, by giving final power to remove the unfit, without appeal or palaver, to a new board of five or more General Staff officers...
Eliminating unfit officers is only half of it. The Army must also find young and fit ones. To that end, a selection board has lately scanned a list of some 800 majors and lieutenant colonels, recommended the best of them for temporary promotions to colonelcies. Most of these promotions (like most of the head-chopping) will be made on the basis of actual performance in this summer's field maneuvers. These games are not war, but to many an officer now on test they are hell...