Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stolid Don Nelson, and bouncy Maury Maverick, chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corp., are in a minority. They argue that idle U.S. machinery and men should be free to use the mountains of surplus aluminum. (Fortnight ago the Aluminum Association stated that curtail ments in aluminum for war materials now exceed the total amount of aluminum used by the country annually before the war.) Last week SWPC estimated that two and a half million tons of steel in odd lots, shapes and sizes could be turned over to small manufacturers who have no war contracts...
What Nelson, Maverick & Co. were striving for was a gradual adjustment from war to peace with a minimum lag in employment for labor, and minimum chaos and financial loss to manufacturers...
Aligned solidly against Messrs. Nelson, Maverick et al. stand the Army & Navy, the able WPB vice chairman, Charles E. Wilson, and a powerful majority group of WPB lieutenants...
Nevada's grizzled, barrel-shaped Senator Pat McCarran went on the warpath last week for the umptieth time in his ten-year career of hatcheting the New Deal. (As far back as 1934 the maverick Pat used to hunt with Huey Long on the President's trail.) This time Pat McCarran was after the bald scalp of birdlike Attorney General Francis Biddle...
...Maury Maverick, the Texas tornado, further denounced and denned Washington's "gobbledygook" language (TIME. April 10). Said "blah"-maddened Maverick in the New York Times Magazine: "First, the word: it is long, sounds foreign, has four stories. You walk up without benefit of elevator. Second, its definition: talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved. ... It is also talk or writing . . . with repetition over & over again, all of which could have been said in a few words...