Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indirect Quotes...
...plain man despite a flair for fancy clothes, Roy Cullen found that he had more money than he knew what to do with. He built himself a big house in Houston's swank River Oaks section, installed indirect lighting and expensive bric-a-brac and landscaped it with costly azalea bushes, each with its own sprinkling system. He provided generously for his four married daughters and gave $10 million to the University of Houston and local hospitals...
...remark that stung Molotov most was Marshall's indirect reference to the fact that Russia (at Potsdam) had agreed to German economic unification, but was now trying to up the price. Said Marshall: "It looks very much to us as though the Soviet Union is trying to sell the same horse twice." Replied Molotov: "We did not approach this problem of reparations from a point of view of merchants, but we do not want other merchants selling our horse at a low price without our consent." (The strong equine note in the discussion reminded observers of an old Russian...
...these things would have to be paid for. Said he: "There is no magic to the production of government revenues. They arise only by being extracted from the pockets of the taxpayer." Nor was he beguiled by arguments for concealed, less painful taxes. "There is easy demagogy in the indirect...
...seemed doubtful that there would be any clear-cut legal decision for months, but at week's end an Atlanta judge named Virlyn B. Moore expressed positive if indirect disapproval of the present state of affairs. A Negro bigamist arraigned in his court cried: "I caint see where it's wrong for a man to have two wives when it's all right for a state to have two governors." Judge Moore just gave him twelve months in the cooler...