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...York's Congressman John Taber, chairmen, respectively, of the Senate and the House Appropriations Committees. Their chat touched on such combustible topics as the administering of Greek aid, State Department housecleaning, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, OIC's Voice of America broadcasts. The language was blunt and unvarnished...
Correspondents wondered why Visitor Stassen had not mentioned other hardship cases. Asked the Philadelphia Bulletin's blunt Carl McArdle: "Governor, are you on the Herald Tribune payroll?" No, Stassen grinned, he had just happened to run into Geoffrey Parsons Jr., editor of the Paris edition, who had told him about the Trib's troubles...
...Some measures of the quality of F.D.R.'s earliest advisers is suggested when Roosevelt tagged Wallace "Old Man Common Sense." But to Milo Reno, a farm-audience spellbinder of the early '30s, "Wallace would make a second-rate County Agent if he knew a little more." And blunt AAAdministrator George Peek (whom Lord respects), wrote: "[Wallace] tended rather to specialize in the study of corn, and was a dreamy, honest-minded and rather likable sort of fellow. He had a mystical, religious side to him, and, never having been in the real rough and tumble of life...
...Broom. Knowing this, McCloy refused the presidency when it was first offered to him in December. But he dished out a blunt appraisal of the Bank's faults. McCloy's bluntness won such favor that Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder offered him the job again-on his own terms...
Bostonians who wanted to see Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh would have to see it elsewhere-maybe in suburban Quincy, where they saw his banned Strange Interlude in 1929. Boston's censor, who had demanded that some blunt words be dropped from the play, got a blunt reply from O'Neill: "Idiotic. ... I will not change, nor allow to be changed, one word. . . . Boston audiences, I am sure ... do not want plays . . . made silly by ... stupid censorship...