Word: willfullness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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†The cloture rule is a device by which two-thirds of the Senate can end debate and force an immediate vote. It was adopted in 1917, after the filibuster against arming merchant ships prompted Woodrow Wilson to denounce "a little group of willful men." It has been invoked only...
Navy Negligence. Reviewing its original findings last week, the Committee was even more blunt: ". . . the action of the Bureau officials entrusted with the tank-lighter program was attributable either to negligence or willful misconduct.'' The Committee made clear that "the mistakes referred to in its report . . . have been...
Minor Statesman Connally, and those in the Administration who had advised him into timidity, were wrong. They had anticipated heavy opposition from onetime isolationists, realizing no more than Walter Winchell how dead the old-fashioned isolationism is. So Tom Connally had polished and burnished his Resolution down to harmless generalities...
For the Critics. In his public utterances the President has often poured scorn on some willful little minority of dissidents. This time it was "a few newspapers and columnists and radio commentators." But he prepared thoughtful answers for several types of Administration critics. He took pains to reassure those who...
The charges involved five of the Articles of War. Specifications: drunk and disorderly in uniform, conduct unbecoming an officer; willful misappropriation of Government property*; snooting of Willie McRae, a Negro private at the field; procuring unlawful transfers of enlisted men and noncoms to Selfridge; accepting a vacation lodge from the...