Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board to oust Miss Seeds from her city-owned buildings. But other parents rallied to Miss Seeds's support. When left-wingers gave Miss Seeds some unsought backing, she found herself before California's Legislative Committee on un-American Activities. Chairman Jack Tenney asked her to explain her classroom approach to Russia. Miss Seeds said that her pupils studied Russian costumes, homes and farming. "You mean collective farming?" asked Chairman Tenney. Replied Miss Seeds: "That's all they have." She was cleared of being "un-American...
...Easy, To explain how the President could have "ead Henry Wallace's Sept. 12. 1946 Madison Square Garden speech-which ran completely counter to the Truman foreign policy-and then told Wallace to go ahead, Allen talked fast but vaguely. "Truman had been genuinely fond of Wallace. . . . He was eager to convert Wallace to ... the necessity for firm dealing with the Soviets. . . . So he accepted the Wallace speech, partly on misplaced faith in his Cabinet officer's loyalty to the Administration. . . . After the Wallace speech was delivered, Truman had a horrified awakening. He talked with Wallace at great...
Most composers have as much trouble as writers of program notes trying to explain with words what their music is trying to say. An exception was redhaired, articulate Hector Berlioz. He had been commissioned by the ministers of Louis-Philippe, the citizen-king, to commemorate the 1830 Revolution's tenth anniversary with a symphony. It was a proud era for France. Chopin, Liszt and George Sand reigned in the salons. Berlioz set out to do justice...
...historic mansion. Only twice did I make a cruise on the Presidential yacht. . . . Never was I asked to join intimate White House gatherings. . . . Mrs. Roosevelt once said: 'Franklin finds it hard to relax with people that aren't his social equals.' I took this remark to explain my being out of the infield...
...common stock to finance his car. Said SEC: Tucker's stock-registration statement contained incomplete and false statements. False entries, said SEC, had been made in Tucker Corp. books to conceal payments of cash and promises of stock options to promoters. Tucker said that he could explain everything. This week SEC began a hearing...