Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said TIME, April 7, 1930, commenting on readers' objections to the Al Capone cover: ". . . If it is considered an honor to be pictured on TIME'S cover, TIME is glad that is so. But in selecting national figures for its cover, TIME does not presume to be 'honoring' those figures. If they are outstanding nationally or internationally, that is . . . to their own and to society's credit . . . It is TIME'S business to report things-as-they-are . . . TIME will continue to publish whatever seems to it nationally newsworthy and significant...
Addressing the Public Relations Society of America, Sawyer had some even kinder words: "We have passed the time when intelligent Americans use the word 'profit' as a curse," he said. "The idea of accepting a relatively modest profit in order to sell more goods to more people is one of the most progressive ideas in the world today. I will go further. I will say that this idea is the only really radical idea in the modern world...
Fixed Ideas. Sawyer also issued a pointed warning to farmers and labor-the sharpest rebuke yet heard from a member of the Truman Administration. "Some so-called liberals," he said, "have adopted . . . the fixed idea that any increase in purchasing power of any one group is good no matter what its effect may be on other groups. To assume, however, that we can continue at all times and places to increase the share of the worker and the farmer without concern for the need for capital savings and the incentive of the businessman is out of keeping with the liberal...
...eyed Charley Ross, the President's press secretary, was hard put to hide his smile. Gravely he introduced the bespectacled, sunburned little man in the seersucker suit to the morning press conference at Key West, Fla. "We have with us today a distinguished contributor to the Federal Register" said Ross. As the score of grinning correspondents and photographers could plainly see, the contributor was Harry Truman, who pulled up a wide-armed writing chair, sat down and posed a gold pen over a Western Union press form...
...United States came down this morning at 7:25 a.m. He went for his constitutional walk at 7:30 a.m.: . . was back at the house at 7:50 a.m. for a breakfast of grapefruit-" A correspondent interrupted to ask: "Was it California grapefruit?" The man from the Federal Register said it had come from the kitchen. But Charley Ross, with an ear keenly tuned to Florida pride, was more positive. "It was Florida grapefruit," he said...