Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to express my thanks ... for your kindness in sending me a record of You've Come a Long Way. I had been previously unaware of the existence of this remarkable composition. I am very happy to possess the record and I hope that because of its musical and verbal distinction it is having a wide success. And I am particularly cheered by the chorus statement: But Baby, you've still got a long...
...announced the same day Communist Spy Klaus Fuchs was convicted. The Standard linked the two stories together in one scare headline: FUCHS AND STRACHEY: A GREAT NEW CRISIS. WAR MINISTER HAS NEVER DISAVOWED COMMUNISM. The Standard's "proofs" were Strachey quotations, from twelve to 18 years old, expressing a sympathy for Russian Communism that Strachey had long since repudiated. "Spreading what [Beaverbrook & Co.] knew to be a lie," said the Tribune, was the kind of journalism that was "lower than [Lord] Kemsley" (the Tory publisher of four London Sunday papers, one London daily and 37 other papers, with...
Meanwhile, laymen also have come to believe that science is a "cureall for mankind," infallible and above criticism. This, says Standen, "is a delusion . . . What with scientists who are so deep in science that they cannot see it, and nonscientists who are too over-awed to express an opinion, hardly anyone is able to recognize science for what it is, the great Sacred Cow of our time...
...left Rome with his band of 522 Holy Year pilgrims early this month, Cardinal Spellman was heard to exclaim: "Long live the Pope, long live Rome, and long live the American Express Com pany!" The cheer was gratefully received by American Express, which has already enjoyed a long life: it celebrated its 100th anniversary last week...
...anniversary week President Ralph T. Reed, who started in as chief accountant in 1919, had some happy news for American Express' 5,500 employees in 1 60 offices scattered through 25 different countries. He reported that American Ex press netted $2.5 million on a $14.2 million gross last year, a new alltime record gross and profits 32% more than...