Word: interest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carlton (Jane) Hadley, the comely, 37-year-old St. Louis widow whom Barkley had managed of late to see most every weekend. But the nation's tabloid readers needed no explanation. Last week they were following the sedate capers of 71-year-old Widower Alben Barkley with the interest usually reserved for limber-loined starlets bound for the Riviera...
...more than ever a sense of frustration ... I feel impotent to accomplish anything." Desperately he cabled for specific instructions to meet the shattering of Chinese resistance. In a tantrum born of its own indecision, Washington brushed off its ambassador's "hypothetical" inquiries: "It is not in the national interest to vouchsafe cut and dried answers to these over-simplified questions...
...Roman Catholic bias. I am firm in my belief that there shall be no pressure brought to bear by any church against the proper operations of the government and that there shall be recognition of the fact that all citizens may express their views freely on questions of public interest...
...Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations, toured the Continent in Harry Truman's blue and silver plane, Independence, reviewed troops, placed wreaths, and did some top-secret chatting with leaders of the Atlantic pact nations. The visitors' chief task was to show Western Europe that they took an interest in its defense...
...with private lives, Szabad Nep discussed the matter of private deaths. It severely criticized the editors of Hungary's Statistical Year Book for printing a chart listing "Deaths by hanging, deaths by shooting, etc." Said Szabad Nep: the publication of such statistics is not "necessarily in the public interest...