Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill with Robert Ramspeck's fountain pen. Then Ramspeck cautioned reporters not to expect miracles; the measure's full force will take some four years to effect. But Ramspeck estimated that about 25% of those Government workers now employed will fail to pass the required noncompetitive examination, must then be dropped within six months. Thus the Government will slough off some 50,000 workers as incompetent or unfit, 5% of all U. S. employes...
...later New Dealer, now widely suspected of being a Communist fellow traveler, Lee Pressman. In his cold, incisive way, staring straight across the banquet table at middle-of-the-roader Lubin, Pressman told the New Deal (and, incidentally, John Lewis' recent allies further to the right) what to expect. His warning: that workers will not base their wage demands on the cost of living only; what they want is a share of mounting defense profits too. His explanation of the recent lull in strikes: union agreements in basic industries (coal, autos) have not yet expired. Next spring, promised...
...into the nation the voice of Willkie reached was something for Republicans and Democrats both to ponder. Wendell Willkie had received more votes than any other Republican candidate in history. But he could not expect even lip loyalty from all the 21,900,000 voters who had cast their ballots for him. Many were simply habitual Republican voters. Many simply disliked and distrusted Roosevelt above all else. Many a professional who had supported him was only casually concerned about anything so academic as a national issue, was far more interested in his own backyard fences...
...American youth is intelligent . . . he has lived the life of a free man. . . . His family environment and schooling have trained him to expect in his leaders practical knowledge, aggressively applied -an appeal to reason rather than to fear or emotion. ... A domineering or paternalistic type of leadership will fail with him, especially if combined with inferior knowledge, indecision, inertia...
General Motors' Knudsen did not expect automakers to turn their present specialized machines and assembly lines to the manufacture of airplanes. He did expect that the automobile industry could turn loose its mass-production brains on the manufacture of airplane parts and engines, in new factories to be built and tooled for this specific job. To build, tool and man the new plants, actually get into quantity production, will take at least a year, perhaps 18 months...