Word: said
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Tribune morale at rock bottom, the results of last week's Guild election were inevitable. Indeed. Bill Knowland hardly put up a fight. Said he after the polling: "The vote speaks for itself." Indeed it did: by a 2-to-i margin. Bill Knowland had just lost another election...
...From being Russia's second dullest paper (Pravda-circ. 6,000,000-official Communist Party organ, is incontestably the dullest), Izvestia became one of the sprightliest. Out went some of Tuesday's boring repetitions of what Pravda, the only-paper in Russia with a Monday edition, had said the day before. On the front page, once the unassailable domain of party catechisms, news stories surprisingly appeared, and the ponderous headlines (A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF THE UNITY OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE AND OF RALLYING AROUND THE COMMUNIST PARTY) became downright breezy (I VISITED THE VINNITSA SPY CENTER and BONN...
...during the blazing summer of 1933, and Ray Brennan, then 25 and covering one of his first big stories, was facing Swindler Jake ("The Barber") Factor, who claimed before reporters and the police that he had been kidnaped, held for twelve days in a basement and just released. Factor said he was still wearing the same clothes in which he had been kidnaped-but his shirt and suit were clean and only slightly wrinkled. And there was another strange thing. Recalls Brennan: "One of the things that impressed me was a cop who noticed Factor's condition. He said...
...Reporter Brennan the book had been a matter of conscience ever since his nose for news told him that Jake the Barber had no B.O. Said he last week: "People are asking me why I am defending 'that gangster.' Look, here's a poor sucker who never had a chance to put his case before the public. I've got more personal satisfaction out of it than you can imagine...
Plant expansion will bound back to the 1957 record rate of $37.8 billion and could show a "startling" 30% jump to a rate of $43 billion by the end of the year, said William F. Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank...