Word: meant
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...minimal difference that Richard Nixon, William Scranton and George Romney later wired their assurances that they were having no part of a Stop Goldwater movement. Dwight Eisenhower came out with his "profile" of the ideal G.O.P. nominee; the hurt was hardly lessened when Ike later denied that he had meant it to be used against Barry. A Good Housekeeping writer said he had been told by Goldwater's wife Peggy that Barry had suffered nervous breakdowns, due to business pressures, twice in the late 1930s. Columnist Drew Pearson picked up the item and with his characteristic kind of punch...
...Cincinnati? Why did the Government wait eight years to file its trustbusting suit? Officially, the Justice Department was not saying, but its strategy seemed clear. "Cincinnati is a practical suit because the papers are easily separable," said a Justice spokesman. "You can get better practical relief." What this meant was that in most newspaper mergers, the two joined papers produce so hopeless a tangle-in both production and finance-that even a victorious antitrust suit cannot sort...
...worry: they would button things up on arrival in France. As they took off, "I watched them out of sight," Ike told Cronkite, who asked if it were true that tears had been observed in his eyes. "It could have been possible," said Ike. "Goodness knows those fellows meant...
...That's All Gone." Most, but not quite all, of the credit for this remarkable comeback belongs to Lewis. He benefited from the courage of his predecessor, Frank Pace, who wrote off all General Dynamics' losses in the year they occurred instead of stretching them out. That meant the company was unburdened of past losses and that Lewis began with a $143 million tax credit. But the tax credit has long since been exhausted, and the new chief has shown a big order of courage and savvy of his own. Lewis cut back the Convair division, shifted some...
When the erratic Aaron Burr started recruiting men in Louisiana for some mysterious purpose, most likely an invasion of Mexico, Jefferson panicked. He feared that Burr meant to seize New Orleans and detach the Western U.S. Though Burr had been cleared by a federal grand jury, Jefferson pronounced him guilty of treason and had him arrested. When Chief Justice John Mar shall refused to hold Burr on a treason charge for lack of evidence, Jefferson demanded a constitutional amendment making federal judges removable by the President...