Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misunderstandings at press conferences the President issued what amounted to style book for White House newshawks. It divided all Presidential utterances into four categories: Back ground Remarks which can be directly attributed to the President but in the third person, without quotation marks; Direct Quotations for the occasional phrase, sentence or statement which he announces can be put in direct quotes; Non-attributable Information, dope the press can put out under any brand name that does not indicate its source; Off the Record, secrets, no fair telling under any pretext...
...bitter, prolonged strife of industry and labor. He and Mediator Charles P. Taft, who last week sailed for Europe leaving the steel strike to stew in its own juice, had agreed that the public feeling toward both parties to the dispute could be summed up in one Shakespearean phrase, "A plague o' both your houses." Was this double-damnation his own feeling? The President declined to affirm or deny. It was what he thought the public thought. Since good politicians model their opinions after the public's, it was fair to deduce that Franklin Roosevelt was at least...
...turning point in his remarkable career. It was the week in which Public Opinion, veering away from both Labor and Management in sheer irritation with their five-week wrangle on the Steel Front, was summed up by Labor's great friend Franklin Roosevelt in Shakespeare's phrase...
...Germany is beautiful, and don't say a word that I have a stack of German books and many German ideas." One of his German expressions, in fact, became a fixture of camp life. Private Bemelmans called his Oswego girl friend "Summer Sprouts," because that is the German phrase for freckles, of which she had a great many. She never outlived the nickname because the other soldiers had so much fun calling...
...fingering through the Minsk Worker in Moscow, correspondents learned that in White Russia 998 ranking Communist Party members had been expelled as "hostile elements" and 31 more for "spreading Trotsky propaganda." The Worker printed names of 141 persons classed in Minsk officially as "enemies of the people"-this stock phrase meaning in Russia today either that they are already in jail or that police are after them...