Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some major matters he avoided completely. There was no mention of portal-to-portal pay, of income-tax reductions, of such an old troublemaker as FEPC. Foreign policy and foreign trade he dismissed with a lick & a promise-and an aside on "the difficulty of reaching agreement with the Soviet Union on the terms of [peace] settlement." One of his few specific requests was for the continuation of war excise tax rates-which he himself had just lifted by abruptly announcing the termination of hostilities (see below...
...France, the Low Countries, a de-Francoed Spain, Italy, the Rhine province, the Saar (which France, without Big Three permission, in effect separated from Germany last fortnight with a customs cordon). "This," wrote Koestler, "is not the occasion to discuss the merits and demerits of such a plan; I mention it merely to avoid closing on a note of despair. For so desperate has the situation in Europe become that pessimism, like defeatism in times of war, is no longer permissible...
...press, both League and Congress are very violent, and speeches of leaders on both sides are continually inciting bloodshed. At last week's Hindu Mahasabha* Session at Gorakhpur, the mention of Nehru's name was greeted with shouts of 'Traitor!' At the conclusion of a violent speech, a member of the audience climbed on the platform, cut his hand, and offered blood then & there. The recent Sind election campaign generally consisted of speeches of vilification, one community v. another...
...Radio Artists. To put together a fine radio program takes time, but the union's rigid wages-&-hours regulations make it impossible-or at least financially prohibitive-to spend enough time rehearsing. . . . While union regulations provide for strikes in case wages fall too low, they make no mention of any action in case the station's artistic standards sink...
...listing of Michel's tedious romantic conquests. Only the most dogged reader will remember, by the end, just what made Elisabeth different from Mary, or from Marjorie, and Riri, and Gisėle, and Irene, and Francine, and Nicole, and Mariana, and Lu-cette, and Lily-to mention only...