Word: pressingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dulles sent a terse, good-natured telegram to President Harry Truman: "You win." The President didn't reply. At his weekly press conference he plainly implied that he probably would find little further use for Dulles as a bipartisan spokesman at the world's diplomatic councils. If so, the loss would be the nation's as well as Dulles', for though an amateur in politics, he had been a professional in diplomacy since...
...heavily Democratic Jersey City, where Mayor Kenny made no effort at all to produce votes for Boss Hague's candidate, Driscoll managed to pile up a plurality of some 18,000 votes. (The day after the election, Mayor Kenny received a small parcel from Wene's press secretary. Contents: a catsup-stained, seven-inch carving knife and a message: "Dear John: I pulled this out of Wene's back this morning; I thought you might need it for future reference...
...Associated Press took a look at the $500 million in pay raises voted by Congress and made a few rapid-fire calculations about the costs of Big Government ¶The federal payroll (including the armed services) is now over $10 billion a year...
Winner of the lonely election was Elpidio ("Pidiong") Quirino, who became President last year after the death of Manuel Roxas. Breezy and genial, Quirino tries, at his meetings with reporters, to act like President Truman at White House press conferences, plugs his own version of the Fair Deal for the Philippines. His big selling point is his friendship with the U.S. (he wangled an invitation to visit the U.S. last summer). Filipinos generally regard him as personally honest, but much of his administration is corrupt and he is surrounded by politicians who cannot resist a chance to make a fast...
...Paris this week, after both Gaullists and the M.R.P. had denied the story, Charles de Gaulle'held a press conference. He called for electoral reforms, proposed a Europe-wide referendum on a European union, attacked the Western foreign ministers for not doing a better job of bringing about a French-German understanding (see INTERNATIONAL). When a newsman asked him about L'Epoque's story, De Gaulle said noncommittally: "I don't sign any protocols; I invite all Frenchmen, regardless of rank and creed, to rally around me in the best interests of the nation...