Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the speech a convincing show of U.S.-British good will, with accent on reverse Lend-Lease. Several versions of the speech were cabled back and forth, checked down to the last word. Minister Lyttelton promptly issued a statement explaining that his remarks were intended only as a compliment, but purple-tempered old Cordell Hull was not appeased. "In all my career," said one State Department oldtimer, "I have never seen Mr. Hull...
...appreciate very much your compliment (TIME, Feb. 7), but I am neither 1) handsome, nor 2) 29. I am 1) unhandsome...
Thus, after a cool compliment to Baruch's free-enterprise ideology, Senator George warmly advised the press that he and Baruch were unalterably at odds on "the question of whether the economic destiny of the country is to be settled by executive directives or by . . . the elected representatives of the people." Grimly he added that his bill to make Congress the postwar boss would be introduced early this week. The bill's coauthor, 100% New Dealer James Murray of Montana, merely mumbled something about "Mr. Baruch's admirable report" and "the need for broad legislative action...
...chauffeur spent hours signing autograph books while waiting for the General. Most surprised person during the tour was a coal heaver in a railway yard who suddenly saw Monty before him, got a hearty handshake and a blunt compliment...
...Army itself has been, and is, quick to compliment the U.S. press on proficient guarding of military information to which the press was privy. But recently the Army has stretched the pretext of "security" to blue-pencil information critical of the Army. Item: the Army attempted to kill a statement that the invasion of New Georgia was "a bungled job," on the ground that it would give propaganda material to the enemy (who knew all about...