Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, red-faced Uncle Fred drove to 10 Downing Street, volunteered to quit his cabinet job as Lord President of the Council and his post as party chairman. Labor's Daily Herald got wind of the story, and hoping to divert attention from Labor's own dissentions, splashed it all over Page One. At that point Winston Churchill, who does not usually deign to acknowledge such reports, issued a sharp personal statement: "There is no question of Lord Woolton's resigning. He has the Prime Minister's full and continuing confidence . . ." Said beaming Uncle Fred...
Since last month, Evangelist Nichols has had what he wanted: a 145-station hookup of the American Broadcasting Co. Nichols himself, speaking with a strong Texas drawl, leads the preaching in a new Sunday radio series, called Herald of Truth...
...Senator Taft in his Mississippi speech last Saturday, although such an endorsement was both needed and expected by the Ohio Republican. Instead, the General chose to deliver a thirty-seven minute cry of doom and denunciation that reached a new level of bitter political partisanship and may herald an independent bid for office...
From Little Acorns. How modestly it all started! To help support the Civil War, Lincoln's Congress in 1861 adopted 33% levy on all incomes over $800. The New York Herald applauded: "Millionaires like Mr. W. B. Astor, Commodore Vanderbilt . . . and others will henceforth contribute a fair proportion of their wealth to the national Government." This act was never enforced, but in 1862 Congress passed a 3% levy, plus a 5% tax on incomes over $10,000, thus introducing the now famed principle of taxation according to ability to pay. There was little dissent. In 1864, more gradations were...
...Wayne's constant re-enactment of the triumph of virtue is as reassuring as George Washington's face on a Series E bond. And virtue, in Wayne's case, brings just as solid returns. This year, for the second year in a row, the Motion Picture Herald poll of U.S. theater owners and exhibitors showed John Wayne the country's top box-office draw. When a breathless pressagent first called to tell him the great news, Wayne's modest response was characteristic. "Why?" he drawled...