Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest Ever. The old gibes were sharpened up. The Republicans, said Truman, "stand four-square for the American home-but not for housing. They believe in international trade-so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program. They say that TVA is wonderful-but we ought never to try it again." His audience, filling St. Paul's auditorium 15,000 strong, with another 6,000 outside, cheered, whistled, and applauded...
...tirades against the U.S., which usually range far afield to cover the atom bomb, lynching, and warmongering. Up rose Eleanor Roosevelt to make a soft but effective answer: "I do not want to make more bad feelings here ... I want to try to have us, when we have to say that we do not agree, say it on the idea, and as courteously as we can. [We should] be perfectly honest and frank about our objectives, not attack ourselves more than is necessary, and recognize that nobody in the world is perfect." It was a modest proposal, and one with...
...back room, behind the huge stage of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, representatives of six nations-Canada, China, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia and Syria-tried for over a week to work out a compromise on Berlin. (The press called them the "neutral nations," although they were all, as the Irish say, neutral against Russia.) The Russians still wanted the Berlin case thrown out of the U.N. Security Council...
...university's centenary. They put on a pageant, handed out honorary degrees to ten dignitaries, learned that Pope Pius XII had conferred an apostolic benediction on students and staff. They listened to tributes from visitors, heard Dr. Robert Wallace, principal of Queen's University in Kingston, say: "There are clearly two different philosophies of education in Canada . . . They rest partly in religious exclusiveness-on both sides-partly on language barriers, and partly on suspicions coming down to us across the years ... It should be possible to do better than we have yet done, for we have worked...
...President in a ringing speech next day: "It is odd to think that there are Uruguayan citizens who would use force to impose their ideas on others. As citizen and President, I respect the beliefs of different men and different parties, but also as citizen and President, I say there must be respect for different opinions . . . This is not a challenge but a warning. If this is the first episode of a series, democratic government will meet it with the necessary force...