Word: spadework
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...Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn and a few other Warner stars who have been rushed on for bit roles. For ardent movie fans, these peeks at the great may help carry the film. But for most moviegoers, the spoofing is hardly good enough to conceal the laborious spadework...
Proclaimed Finance Minister Hayato Ikeda, one of Japan's few competent cabinet members, who had done the spadework with Joe Dodge: "Real political freedom cannot be hoped for where there is no economic independence. If we Japanese prefer to lie idly dependent on the help of foreign countries, we would be disgracing both our forefathers and our children...
SCAP (Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) has 45 teams traveling through the countryside, doing the occupation's spadework, checking on its effectiveness and on Japanese compliance. But MacArthur himself does not travel. In nearly three years of occupation he has not missed a day, including Sundays, at his desk. Douglas MacArthur, brilliant soldier and administrator, great showman, benevolent dictator, steadfast egoist, is SCAP-although the initials as usually employed refer to the whole apparatus of the occupation...
When Bill Pawley resigned, he had little to show for his two years-except for his important spadework for the Rio and Bogota conferences. But his friends believed that he left behind him ideas which would live and grow. Already Brazil had shown itself more receptive to U.S. investment in oil development. Pawley had tried to interest U.S. iron and steel men in the possibilities of Itabira (TIME, April 5). Some day that work might bear fruit...
...Dewey were to make a better showing in the next two primaries, he would have to develop more zip than he had shown in New Hampshire. In Wisconsin (April 6), Stassen will be on friendlier ground, and General MacArthur will have the benefit of some advance spadework in his home state. In Nebraska (April 13), almost every avowed and unavowed candidate's name (including Vandenberg's) is on the free-for-all ballot...