Word: fide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came the run-around that the President gave them when he met Churchill. That sharpened their feeling that the President had played them for suckers. Subsequent White House press conferences did not lessen that feeling. More than ever they became aware that he was patronizing them and answering bona fide questions with irritable wisecracks. He no longer took them into his confidence, no longer bothered to explain why he would not talk - merely shut them off. So they asked Secretary Steve Early to intercede...
...Bona fide military secrets are accepted, and rightly so, in periods of war or crisis, but the army-navy attitude goes beyond this in an unwarranted fashion. Reporters are discouraged from printing unsavory material by the threat of blacklist--being refused access to government releases or press conferences. In this manner a quietus is put on reports of waste and inefficiency in the building of our national defense, so that optimistic generalities prevail. The absurd "voluntary censorship" on the presence of British warships in New York and San Francisco harbors was an attempt to keep ammunition from the isolationists. Coming...
...know, though, that Mayor LaGuardia always has been a friend of organized labor; bona fide organized labor...
Whether the Chase will be told whose instructions to honor is another matter. Under the New York Civil Practice Act, a "stakeholder" for property can ask the Court to pick the proper claimant only if it can produce bona fide rival claims. Before the Court will consider the case, the rival claimants may settle privately, or simply decide not to press their claims. All the Chase can do is wait and pray...
...editor of the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette to devote his time to the No Foreign War Committee, the doctor wired: "We now have your organization properly placed." Its place, the doctor said, was alongside "the salesmen of Social Justice, Christian Mobilizers, Bundists. . . . Your organization is no such bona fide keep-us-out-of-war movement as are the Quakers and similar high-minded and loyal American groups." Concluded the doctor, brushing his hands off: "It is fortunate for our country that your No Foreign War Committee has been exposed before it gathered too much strength...