Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blamed "politics" for his troubles with committee, public and press. "Frankly. I like to meet important people. Is that so bad? In the country where I was born, it took two or three generations for a 'poor man' to get to know important people . . . Nor did I ever realize that it was evil to be generous. Perhaps I do give gifts to too many people, but if I do, it is only an expression of my nature." Another expression of Goldfine's nature came later when he tried to beat the House subcommittee to the punch...
...estate holding company, the East Boston Co., was "really being picked on" by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but denied that SEC pressure lessened as a result. Goldfine denied flatly and specifically that Sherman Adams had ever got him favorable treatment from Government agencies: "Mr. Chairman, I think you know Governor Adams is not that kind of man. And neither...
...Meany, and a member of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee that recommended the ousting of Hoffa and his teamsters last September, allowed blandly that the new pact "has no bearing whatsoever on the feelings of one member of a union for another. Anyway, lately I don't know what the A.F.L.-C.I.O. constitution provides. And I don't care...
...Gaulle's insistence that France has a "vocation" to become a nuclear power. They tried to suggest, from their own experience, how costly nuclear weaponry could get (De Gaulle, in talks with John Foster Dulles later in the week, counted on the U.S. to help out with know-how and materials). Apparently British "sympathy" was mistaken for support. MACMILLAN: YES TO FRENCH ABOMB, crowed the Paris-Journal, to the discomfiture of the British delegation...
...convinced that the U.S. is arming Batista. Wishing to teach Washington a lesson, young Castro decided to kidnap Americans wholesale from the neighboring sugar mills and nickel mines, and from among the personnel of the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. But he was also at pains to let his captives know that he meant no offense...