Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reed did. "You talk about foreign trade. Let me remind you, gentlemen, let me remind you of our trade with Italy back in the '30s. I can still remember how Mussolini's son bragged-bragged, mind you-about trade with us, and where did it go? To make bombs to rain down on poor innocent women and children." Down went Reed's fist, papers and pencils flew helter-skelter, and Noah Mason chortled. Mississippi's Colmer, in an artistic piece of understatement, remarked to Reed: "Well, I take it you're opposed to the bill...
...inaction than to be guilty of action. I believe in action." Cried New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski: "Does mainland China want Japan on Formosa? Does Russia want Japan in Korea? That is the issue both face. It seems to me that memories of the past should remind Peking and Moscow that they have never had it so good in the Pacific. Heaven help them if they move against us." Then Sieminski sat down, leaving the House in utter bewilderment...
...painting of a Chinese puzzle by Dodge's son, Joseph Jeffers Dodge, curator of the Hyde collection of art at Glens Falls, N.Y. The painting, a gift from Banker Dodge to Ike, represents the friendship between two men of vastly dissimilar backgrounds and personalities. It may also remind the President that Dodge will need all the help he can get in solving one of Washington's most difficult puzzles: how to make a foreign economic policy that is both exciting and practical, one that will imbue the free world with a sense of confident expansion...
Lynching Day. Governor Slaton, after lengthy hearings and a deathbed appeal for clemency from the trial judge, commuted Frank's sentence to life imprisonment. "I can endure misconstruction, abuse and condemnation," he said, "but I cannot stand the constant companionship of an accusing conscience which would remind me that I, as governor of Georgia, failed to do what I thought to be right . . . It means that I must live in obscurity the rest of my days, but I would rather be plowing in a field than to feel that I had that blood on my hands...
...remind us of what we have committed But of what Thou didst forgive; Not how we went astray, but how Thou...