Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week seemed further than ever from accepting leadership in a political campaign against either Socialists or Communists. When Kazimierz Papee, Ambassador from the London Polish Government, appeared with Polish soldiers at the Vatican, the Pope addressed him by his name, but not his title. Osservatore Romano failed to mention him in its report of the audience, indicating Papal recognition of the fact that the London Polish Government had been replaced by one made in Moscow. Vatican officials said that "though the Holy See was filled with benevolence toward Polish troops . . . and wished for a completely independent and democratic Poland...
WNEW auditioned 70 Negro players, discovered no difference between "white" and "Negro" voices, found voices for all types of parts from pure cockney to half-breed Mexican. WNEW will mention the American Negro Theater only once-at the end of each program...
...away he grew up. When he came back home he had grown into a hog. Nothing seemed good enough for him and nothing pleased him here. He went around grunting about things he saw in foreign lands. And he looked exactly like foreign hogs abroad. I feel disgusted to mention him even in a fable...
...Chateau Frontenac, a U.S. physician named Dr. George Dows Cannon wired ahead for $12-a-day accommodations. He did not mention that he and his wife were Negroes. When they showed up, they were given a fine room overlooking the St. Lawrence. For three days they had no trouble. Then, as they waited for a table in the hotel's main dining room, a headwaiter told them: "We cannot serve...
...decision to get down out of the upper levels and bomb from a mile high, LeMay took the lives of over 3,000 airmen in his hands, not to mention his own career. Not the least courageous phase of his decision was the implied admission that high-level bombing with the missiles then being used was still not so good as low-altitude work. The B-29 had been painstakingly built to work above 25,000 feet...