Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recantation Witness V. Torth agreed that there was no evidence of corruption in the B-36 procurement program,* that neither Defense Secretary Louis Johnson nor Air Secretary Stuart Symington nor top Air Force officers had been guilty of impropriety in buying the Consolidated bomber, that it was "ridiculous" to say (as the anonymous statement had suggested) that Board Chairman Floyd Odium and the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. had contributed $6,500,000 to the Democratic campaign...
...AMERICANS: "It is a gross oversimplification to say that Britain's present difficulties are solely due to mistakes in British policy." FOR BRITONS : "For a generation past, the British people have been paying far too little attention to their competitive position in the world...
...hands of both [the Conservative and Labor] parties, contributed to [the crisis] . . . The Labor Government, as the bearers of responsibility, are very much to blame for their stubbornness in refusing to remit anything of their plans . . . It is not enough for a self-respecting Government merely to say that its opponents would have been no better ... In Britain courage pays political dividends. Those politicians who refuse to prolong the rosy illusions . . . and tell the people soberly what needs to be done would be surprised at the response...
...Examinations should be conducted by boards composed of a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a sociologist and a physician. Of course, added Dr. Reiter, before ruling on the health of others, each board member should have his own physical and mental health looked into. By whom, the doctor did not say...
Adenauer, a staunch democrat in politics, is an autocrat of the breakfast and the dinner table. His son says: "Father leaves democracy at the door. He rules our family with a strong hand. If a rose tree must be transplanted, he decides when and where. If my sister wants to bake a cake, he must say yes or no. This is not unusual in Germany, you know; this is how it should...