Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formal functions. In the White House, where he and Truman were joined by Administration bigwigs including Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett, Churchill gravely reviewed the global struggle against Communism. Proudly he recalled to his host the 1946 speech at Fulton, Mo., in which, publicly proclaiming the breach between Russia and the free world, he had coined the term Iron Curtain. Mrs. Roosevelt, the Prime Minister remembered, had been disturbed at the somewhat bellicose tone of the speech, and much later, in an attempt to justify her objections, had told him, "Well, you didn't have...
...National Can Corp., 1952 was a hard year. Because of the steel strike, a lost decision on an old breach-of-contract suit, and a costly adjustment in freight rates, the company lost $491,241 in the first nine months. National, deciding that what it needed was new management, literally bought a new president...
...capital's northern suburbs. The ceremony over, the smiling President turned and flung his arms around grizzled old Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez in an emotional abrazo. That gesture to the-primate of Mexico dramatically told the approving crowd of thousands-and all Mexico-how much the historic breach between church & state in Mexico has been healed...
Introduced by the show's original announcer Bill Hay (who came out of retirement for the occasion), they brought back a few such famous characters as Lillian ("Madame Queen") Randolph and Elinor ("Ruby") Harriet, and recalled some favorite milestones from their script life: Madame Queen's breach of promise suit against Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger...
Victory at Sea (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Sealing the Breach, third in the topnotch NBC-Navy series of 26 film chapters about World War II (see above...