Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sauckel's turn. When summoned for his last walk, he had refused to dress, so he went to the gallows coatless. He cried: "I am dying innocent. . . . I pay my respects to U.S. soldiers and officers, but not to U.S. justice." (Conflicting versions claimed that he did not mention "U.S. justice but "U.S. Jews.") Then Colonel General Alfred Jodl. Then, finally, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, who limped as he mounted the steps. He said, "I hope this execution is the last act in the tragedy of World War II. . . ." It was 2:57 when he was pronounced dead. Said Woods...
...Lowell Bennett of I.N.S., knowing that his agency had a deal with a foreign general who was a guest at the hangings and had installed a special telephone to get his call. Finally the general called, said everything had gone off like clockwork. He did not bother to mention what he assumed Bennett knew: that Göring was a suicide. I.N.S. got off an inaccurate bulletin...
Because of the recent publicity given the gifts of the sponsors of wartime ships [TIME, Sept. 23], it seems only fair that someone should mention that the giving was not entirely one-sided...
...hucksters of B.B.B. & M. suggested a radio show for Allen. He shouted the idea down ("If you mention that . . . again, I'll have your entire agency barred from Toots Shor's!"). To the tune of As Some Day It May Happen, Allen told why he dislikes radio...
...radio listeners did not hear this version. Reason: after rehearsal NBC censors slashed Allen's script. Deleted by the thin-skinned network: all mention of hucksters, jerks, "old P.U.," etc. At the last minute, Allen had to write out some of his best lines to make his lyrics rhyme...