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...York Times and the New York Daily News - both Dulles supporters - concede to Lehman and O'Dwyer." Said beaming Harry Truman: "It certainly is a most happy evening." The Old Man, Too. While the ladies whooped it up, the President launched into a few appropriate, off-the-cuff remarks. "Every woman in the great state of New York has done her best," he said with a bow to the assembled members of the Women's National Democratic Club. "That means she's gone to the polls and had the old man go too ... I will tell...
...sight to brighten a soldier's eye and the President expressed his pleasure and satisfaction in a gracious little off-the-cuff speech during lunch at the officers' club. He also confessed that as a politician he had been completely fascinated by one of the Army's less lethal developments-a pocket loudspeaker which would project the human voice for a full two miles...
...Pipe Dream." When the President rose to make his off-the-cuff speech he had a crowd which could hardly wait to cheer. He stoutly defended the 81st Congress and the Fair Deal. "My political philosophy," he said, "is based on the Sermon on the Mount." He went on to lay down a proposition that would be heard again & again in the off-year election campaign; he hoped, he said, that the U.S. could eventually raise its income from $200 billion to $300 billion a year-enough to bring the national average to $4,000 a family. "That...
...Kansas City. These were hell-roaring, rip-snorting affairs with the loudest & longest speeches you ever heard. The President loved those picnics, never missed one." Boyle recalled listening to the President's St. Louis speech just before the 1948 election. "About halfway through, he began talking off the cuff. 'Uh-oh,' I said to myself, 'here goes a Lonejack oration,' and that's what...
From now on, proclaimed the Trib, words of more than one syllable ending in "ff" will end simply in "f," e.g., distaf, sherif, tarif, midrif, bailif, mastif, rifraf. (One-syllable words like cuff, scoff and fluff will keep the "ff.") Also doomed to Trib extinction: the letters "ph" within a word, which will be replaced by "f," e.g., anglofobe, sofistry, sofomore, sofisticate, biografy. Magnanimously, the Trib granted "ph" the right to continue to exist at the start of words, e.g., philosofy, photog-rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina...