Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight ago, five men met in the office of Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss to express their opinions on an explosive personnel matter. Strauss spoke first, and then each of the other four commissioners had his say. At the end their decision was clear: they stood 4-1 for a vote of no confidence in Atomic Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...
Sounding Board. To organize and kindle this new enthusiasm, rising young newspaperman Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, publisher of the intellectual magazine L'Express, began a series of informal diners du travail. Jacques Soustelle, De Gaulle's bright young lieutenant, came, so did young MRPers of Bidault's party like André Monteil and Robert Buron, and Socialists like Robert Lacoste and Gaston Defferre. Says Servan-Schreiber: "First, we had to get a sounding board for Mendès. With his isolation in Parliament, he made brilliant speeches but there was no political echo. Secondly, he had always...
With that storm passed. Stoddard found himself headed into another. This time the cause of the ruckus was a teacher's manual about UNESCO that Stoddard had hoped to use in the schools. Some citizens, how ever, led by Hearst's Herald & Express, had other ideas. UNESCO, the critics charged, tended to subvert nationalism in favor of one world, and this in turn was closely akin to Communist international ism. The local American Legion joined the attack, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution condemning "this planned corruption of the American children's minds." Eventually...
...word had been "profoundly shaken," told the House of Commons: "There is, I am thankful to say, no reason to suppose that the present German action implies a threat of hostilities. The German government speak ... of their 'unchangeable longing for a real pacification of Europe,' and express their willingness to conclude a non-aggression pact with France and Belgium." The real difference between a Locarno pact then and now is that Locarno was a compact between men of good will-a pact with the democratic Weimar Republic of Germany, not with the Germany of Hitler. A Locarno pact...
...Francisco last week, another big trucker was growing bigger. With ICC approval, Pacific Intermountain Express, whose $22 million volume in 1953 made it the West Coast's biggest trucker (ninth in the nation), wound up a deal to combine forces with Los Angeles' $18 million West Coast Fast Freight, Inc. Pacific Intermountain, which has just ordered $4,000,000 worth of new equipment, will pay Fast Freight's owners $3,270,000 and 60,000 shares of Pacific Intermountain stock, will then have a combined fleet of 2,642 tractors and trailers serving 25,000 Western...