Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October 1944, when the U.S. wanted to believe that peace could be permanently achieved by the mere setting up of a United Nations organization, Congresswoman Luce gave the problem a fresh appraisal. For the New York Herald Tribune Forum she traced the history-and weak points-of Utopian peace plans, from a Chinese try in 546 B.C. up to the League of Nations. "Those who refuse to remember the past are condemned to repeat it," said she. In May 1945, long before the U.S. got around to a foreign policy of "containing" Communism, she warned: "If we want to stay...
...George Venable Allen, 49, able Ambassador to Yugoslavia, to be Ambassador to India. Allen went into the foreign service in 1930, after a career as a North Carolina public-school principal and newspaperman (Asheville Times and Durham Herald-Sun), became Ambassador to Iran...
Last week the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Homer Bigart became the first U.S. newspaperman to visit the camp on Phuquoc. Bigart reported that the refugee Nationalists have been whipped into a tight, well-conditioned force which, in spite of three years of jungle life and inadequate health facilities, could field some 12,000 combat troops on quick notice...
...drew itself up to full stature and announced that "Ike" had been banished from the paper as an undignified nickname for the President of the U.S. The New York Daily Mirror snapped back: "Ike's Still Ike to Us." Up on the bulletin board of the New York Herald Tribune's Washington bureau went a notice: use "President Eisenhower" in the lead of a story, "General" thereafter. The Washington Post, after paying its respect by calling him "President Eisenhower," uses "Mr. Eisenhower" for the rest of the story. "Ike and Mamie" are still good enough for the tabloid...
...moviegoers who have not yet had a chance to see Limelight and judge it on its own merits, the Legion stand appeared highhanded. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: ". . . The Legion has made the cardinal error of attacking the art in place of the artist . . . To make rude remarks about movies you do not like is an American privilege. But to suppress them ... is not such a privilege, and it is not good sense . . . Charles Chaplin's political activities, if any, can be dealt with at the proper place and time, but to drag his movie into the indictment...