Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will fight it out to the bitter end, all summer and all winter if necessary." To his Rhode Island constituents, Senator McGrath declared: "Maybe you won't get all the housing or economic welfare you want. But if these things must wait upon human values then I say, 'Let them wait.'" This week the filibuster began. Georgia's respected Walter George got to his feet first. He had plenty of Southern gentlemen beside him, ready to talk on when he tired...
...Yanko Ivanov, a bald, short man who is superintendent of Bulgaria's Methodist Church. Said he: "I don't believe in man because he lies frequently ... I will give you now a full account of my criminal activities, which make me ashamed ... I will say that I am a sinner...
...last week denied Ivanov's whole story. Actually all charges of espionage against Bulgarian Protestant churchmen are patently phony. As pastors of minority churches they have long been under surveillance. Said one U.S. diplomat who knows Bulgaria well: "The Protestant clergy has never been on the inside. To say that it could know about what is going on inside the government is about as ridiculous as saying that the ministers of small churches in the Washington suburbs would be effective espionage agents...
...commission also decided to fight in the French cantonal elections (March 20 and 27) on a peace platform. Hundreds of thousands of election posters have been shipped out, to be plastered on walls all over France. Say the posters: "Marshall-ized France has been dragged into a costly, dangerous and criminal policy of preparation for war." And, in the poster's largest lettering: "VOTE FOR PEACE...
...artist's responsibility is to truth, to what he feels compelled to say, to what his experience and environment has taught him," declared Matthiessen...