Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government. Not content with mere New Dealers, he jumped on Secretary of War Stimson, crying that Communists had been allowed to obtain commissions in the Army. He demanded Stimson's resignation, and put up the name of General George Patton for the job. The government, however, found it wise to disregard not only this piece of advice, but a staggeringly high percentage of the other suggestions Rankin offered in his brief tenure as de facto chairman of Dies' committee. In 1946, the Republican scoop displaced the Mississippian in favor of J. Parnell Thomas, whose opinions on Democratic administration and kindred...
Edward never appears in the play, which is probably wise as well as ingenious, for the play really scores as the whopping success story of a ruthless charmer who begins as a small shopkeeper faced with bankruptcy and winds up a potentate and peer of the realm. With bright humor and a sort of icy gaiety, Holt gambles, soft-soaps, bludgeons, picklocks his way out of scrapes and up the ladder. And the play's interest really lies much less in whom he does it for than in how he does it; the Edward role seems...
...Committee for Wallace is like-wise concentrating their campaign on one issue--Waltor O'Brien's campaign to defeat Congressman Christian A. Herter '15. This movement gets under way Thursday night with a rally at which Professor F. O. Matthiessen and O'Brien will speak. Later they plan to undertake "an educational campaign to liberalize the Harvard campus," at which time they will reemphasize a program of rallies and song-fests...
...What the Wise Men Said. Last month, EGA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman declared that OEEC must take on the job of whacking up U.S. aid among the various Marshall Plan countries. So a four-man committee (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Italy) locked itself in a solitary villa near Paris, to make suggestions about how the $4,875,000,000 for ECA's first year should be divided...
Last week, the "four wise men" (as they were dubbed) submitted their suggestions to OEEC's full council. The biggest slice was to go to Britain (more than one and a quarter billion dollars); next was France (about $1 billion) ; Italy (about $600 million). Most of the beneficiaries felt that the portions had been fairly worked out. Most troublesome dissenters were the Greeks (down for a reported $150 million) and the U.S. representatives of Western Germany (down for $350 million...