Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veep," and pumped his hand. At the top of the ladder, Acheson turned and waved cheerily. "Bring home the bacon," shouted John J. McCloy, the new American High Commissioner in Germany. "Bon voyage" shouted Alben Barkley. Harry Truman looked at him in mock amazement. "What did you say?" he asked, then turned to look for French Ambassador Henri Bonnet. "Hey, Bonnet, this guy's trying to talk French," said Truman gleefully...
...whole thing was over before a Marxist could say monarcho-fascist-devia-tionist. One afternoon last week, U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey got to his feet in Manhattan Federal Court and announced unexpectedly: "The Government rests." It had completed the main body of its case against the eleven top U.S. Communists who are charged with conspiracy to advocate violent overthrow of the Government...
Said Medina: "If [the defendants] merely got together ... to urge . . . people by peaceful means to change the laws so as to bring about a socialistic society I would say, yes, that was something it was clearly their right to do ... You are knocking down a man of straw here . . . It did not seem to me that all these witnesses were talking about peaceful things." Isserman contended that a "clear and present danger" from their activities would have to be shown. Did he mean, asked Judge Medina, that the Government had to prove a clear and present danger of the immediate...
Sophie Shanks had no idea who Santa Claus was, and the check, drawn on a Los Angeles bank, gave only an incomplete clue. The bank could only say that there really is a Santa Claus, but it was honor-bound not to tell his name. With some misgivings (it feared that Santa Claus' signature was too easy to forge), the bank had opened the account for a Californian who drew from it regularly to send gifts to Sophie Shankses around the country. Said Bank Manager Frank K. Galloway: "Santa Claus is a reputable citizen who wants to do nice...
Along these same Roman sidewalks, in 1948's spring, Red mobs had marched with clenched fists and Marxist hymns. Last week the proprietor of a jewelry shop on the Piazza Colonna could say: "When the Reds called their last general strike [in February], they came to me and said,, 'You better close down.' I told them...