Word: frankely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME does it again. Frank Costello: not worthy-but "newsworthy...
Later in the week Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. flew in with his troubles. The budget for fiscal 1951, he told newsmen, would be "under $45 billion." He added: "In my judgment the budget cannot be balanced without additional taxes." It was also obvious, though he did not say so, that Congress was unlikely to be in a tax-increasing mood. The U.S., already $256 billion in debt and likely to add $5.5 billion to its burden this year, found little warmth in the news that it might go into the red another $7 billion next year...
...that seemed undone was for Dwight Eisenhower to confide, as Abraham Lincoln confided to a friend in the spring of 1860: "I will be entirely frank. The taste is in my mouth a little...
...When Frank Waldrop, editor of the Washington Times-Herald, came home for dinner one evening last fortnight, his ten-year-old son Andrew had exciting news: "Harry Hopkins was a spy!" The boy had been listening to Fulton Lewis Jr.'s radio interview with ex-Major G. Racey Jordan and, as Waldrop said afterward, "That was his young way of summing it up." Waldrop's own way of summing it up for his readers was to reprint verbatim the broadcast of Lewis, who is not celebrated for his accuracy. Waldrop made no effort to determine whether...
...west Texas, the five or six daily editorials in the Abilene Reporter-News (circ. 35,241) are often as important conversational topics as oil, cotton, cattle and sandstorms. The folksy, shrewd comments on politics, literature, science and almost everything else are the work of Frank Grimes, the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), cadaverous editor of the Reporter-News. Last week, Editorialist Grimes, 58, celebrated his 35th year on the paper by summing up "15,000,000 words later" everything he had learned about editorial writing...