Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fred Loomis, disillusioned Seattle investment counselor, whom Beck hired as an adviser for Teamster investment, explained that little by little he got the wind of Dave's shenanigans, advised him more than once that it was time to straighten out his affairs. At length he fired off a "Dear Dave" letter: "There has been talk of your receiving a kickback [from a building loan in Honolulu with Teamster funds], the plain implication being that this was in accordance with a pattern. I am sure that your fiduciary duty has never been sufficiently impressed upon your mind. Accept my resignation...
...Negroes on the police force and orders the Parks Department to let Negroes play golf on municipal courses, could be listed as a potential political suicide. Atlanta's Mayor William Berry Hartsfield has done all these things-and many more like them. He ordered city employees to use "Dear Mr. Jones" instead of "Dear Jim" in answering letters from Negroes. In 1951 he approved of a national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Atlanta, furnished a police honor escort from and to the airport for a visiting Negro dignitary, Diplomat Ralph Bunche. Last...
...known for our capacity to make sacrifices and to die a brave death," he told his flock last November in his first public sermon after being released by the Communists. "Poles know how to die magnificently. But, my dear ones, Poles must learn to work magnificently. When one dies one may get glory quickly; but to live in toil, suffering pain and sacrifice for years is greater heroism, and this greater heroism is needed today...
When Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told his press conference that he was willing to let a "limited number" of responsible U.S. newsmen into Red China on a pool basis (TIME, May 6), the New York Times 's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger wrote him a "Dear Foster" letter arguing that any such restriction would be "abridging the freedom of the press." Last week, in a "Dear Arthur" answer, Secretary Dulles gave a definition of press freedom that, if widely adopted, would deny newsmen access to every time-honored news source, from the local police station to the Pentagon...
...been generous. In the three to five hours of air time it buys every Saturday, 20 weeks a year, there is not a single commercial. In spots totaling less than one minute. Texaco is politely identified as sponsor. The company is rewarded with some 10.000 letters a year ("My dear Texas Company . . .") from people who say they buy Texaco products because of its "public service" attitude of sponsorship...