Word: runarounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla had also "hinted" to the State Department. So had Leo S. Rowe of the Pan American Union. Both got the runaround. According to Under Secretary Edward R. Stettinius Jr., there had been "consultations." But when a TIME reporter asked Latin-American diplomats whether the "consultations" ever worked both ways -with the Latins taking the initiative-he met raised eyebrows and an "Are you kidding?" attitude. Apparently the U.S. State Department intended to speak for the hemisphere...
...currently suing the union's publication, Spotlight, for $1,000,000, alleging some 350 libelous stories. Month ago, Ward's $1,000,000 libel suit against McGraw-Hill for a Business Week article stating that Ward's had given a federal conciliator the "runaround" was dismissed by Chicago's Federal Judge John P. Barnes...
...Eichelberger insisted that the site was fine for alunite-aluminum production, was not feasible if bauxite-aluminum production (whose carbon furnaces require deep pits) was planned. The fact that Alcoa was to build his plant was news to him. If OPM was not giving him the runaround, it was certainly giving him the silent treatment...
...Charles Palmer's story "Runaround in Reverse" printed last June in MacLean's Magazine the hero admonished his erring wife and her lover thus: " 'I must say I am surprised. Or rather, you are surprised, I am astonished.' He had waited a long time for a chance to use this...