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...Henry Morgenthau [then Secretary of the Treasury] . . . kept wanting to know where he stood [with Truman] and finally, one day, put the question point-blank to the President. What happened then reminds me of the epitaph I once saw on a tombstone in a Western mining town :He kept asking for it until...
...Epitaph. In Bogota, Colombia, the newspaper El Tiempo, deploring the Texas City disaster, editorialized: "Texas, an important city of the U.S., was completely destroyed by a fearful fire. Nothing remains of Texas, the cradle of all the cowboys of the screen...
...Named after Frederick Winslow Taylor, a Philadelphia mechanic who in the '90s devised "scientific management." In The Big Money, John Dos Passos wrote this epitaph...
There to Stay. These words, which described realities, had the grim sound of an epitaph. But the Truman Doctrine might conceivably be U.N.'s salvation...
Last week, after 87 days of being picketed, Stern wrote a front-page epitaph for the Record: "Guild policy has acted to restrict the rights of management to a degree where it has become too great a burden to operate a completely independent press. . . . Philadelphia's liberal newspaper has been chosen by this one union as a target for its unusual theories...