Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House press conference Franklin Roosevelt denied having used the exact cuss word TIME reported, said that his words to the head election official had been, "Tom, the damn thing won't work," advised the White House Correspondents' Association to defray the expense of sending the errant reporter to an ear specialist. TIME will gladly undertake that expense-as well as the cost of examining the ears of the five other reporters and photographers who heard the same thing...
...exact information, enlightenment and joy we derive from reading your excellent magazine make us look forward to each new issue of TIME with eagerness and expectancy. Your articles on war and world politics are of utmost value to us in giving the readers of the Norwegian underground press a wider picture of the world as it is today and will be tomorrow. Many of your articles are wholly or partly translated and printed by our underground papers, and as an example of this we send you enclosed a late edition of our weekly Kronikken...
...Slaveowners." Two days after the phone call. Caesar Petrillo sat in another of his offices, this time on the 34th floor of Manhattan's General Electric Building, surrounded by his henchmen. In filed the representatives of Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...
...particularly pleased with the review which TIME (Oct. 2) gave the motion picture, Battle for the Marianas, because of the fact that your reviewer seemed to appreciate my almost exact thoughts while editing this picture at Warner Brothers...
With most of the Washington suggestions, the Generalissimo, however, reluctantly, agreed. He had already accepted the proposal that General Stilwell be given tactical command of China's armies. Then, seemingly in the discussion over the exact scope of Stilwell's command, he was pushed too far. Perhaps, as some reports maintained, Washington at last insisted on bringing the Chinese Communist armies into the new setup. Allegedly, the Chinese Communists, who have adamantly held out against Chiang's control, were willing to serve under an American general and thereby acquire American arms...