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Galbraith's cables to the State Department were prized as titillating reading material. "Well, the President's policy has fallen on its face again," was a typical salutation. A postscript might be: "Now would somebody back there please get off his ass!" A little vulgarity, Galbraith found, assured a personal reading by President Kennedy...
...down money-losing locomotive works and coal and steel operations. The resulting debt of $600 million-highest of any German company-gave the edge last spring to the bankers, who then, in effect, ordained the end of the House of Krupp. Alfried's death was thus only a postscript...
...Boston's Courant, the Negro newspaper published from 1883 to 1899. (Her husband was the first Negro to be graduated from Harvard Law School (1869), and he managed to sail through its entire curriculum in one year.) The writer of this 1891 letter, Thomas W. Higginson, appended a postscript to point out that all the work of grading and laying out the grounds around the Cambridge Public Library was done by Negroes. This is the same Higginson who was graduated from Harvard in 1841 and from 1862 to 1864 was the colonel in command of the first slave regiment mustered...
...times sheltered such visitors as Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.) As to the business of the day, Kosygin said he had nothing to add to Johnson's statement: "I think it was very correctly drawn up." But by the time he got to his limousine, Kosygin had a postscript: "War should be a thing of the past...
...York's Nelson Rockefeller-remembering his own experience in 1964-could not endorse the pause behind PAUSE. After acknowledging but politely disclaiming his old supporter's hopeful postscript, which indicated that the New Yorker was still his personal choice, Rockefeller bluntly replied that unless the moderates plan to "simply deliver the nomination to the other side on a silver platter," they had better fall in quickly behind Michigan's George Romney. "He is," noted Rockefeller, "consistently running around ten points ahead of Lyndon Johnson in the polls throughout the country. He is the first and only Republican...