Word: candids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million and this year will bring another $260 million into the islands. Much of the $2½ billion U.S. postwar aid was in the form of surplus military property. Distribution of this property became a gigantic swindle. I asked a businessman what he was doing. He answered with candid cynicism: "Last year I was in the surplus property racket, and this year I am taking life easy...
Nickels & Poets. A big man, Duff is outspoken, disarmingly candid, unaffectedly informal. In Harrisburg, all anyone needs to talk to the governor is a nickel and a pay telephone. At the summer mansion at Indiantown Gap, he putters around the greenhouse and garden, casually returning the waves of passing neighbors. He subscribes to the Manchester Guardian, firmly supports bipartisan foreign policy. His other favorite reading is the seed catalogue and the Elizabethan poets, whom he can quote at length from memory...
...cabled: "Picture circulates successfully whole world including England without ever meeting similar demands. As to girls' house scene, critics everywhere have stressed the delicate way same is conducted ... As to [the boy's] wall scene, once more its spirit and execution have been judged everywhere simply candid. May I recall that noble religious town of Brussels, Belgium, emblem is boy in said circumstances whose statue stands in one of its squares." Taking up the argument, Burstyn charged "a subtle form of sabotage." He pointed out that the cuts demanded by Breen would entail gouging hundreds of more feet...