Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair of black-rimmed reading glasses and read briefly from a small piece of paper covered with typed notes: "I always love coming to America. But," he added with a wry poke at fast-traveling Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's gibes at U.S. leadership, "I shall not say-as most people who are traveling nowadays about the world seem to do-everything I think." Taken off to the White House in the President's bubbletop Lincoln, Winston Churchill rested, dined quietly with the Eisenhower family, turned in, at the President's suggestion...
...say this, and I say it and emphasize it," said he at his press conference. "Here is something in which not only Government but public, the whole public, 175 million people are involved, and their interests are going to be preserved or damaged or possibly even advanced by decisions reached by the employees and employers in this field. It is a basic industry, and whatever is done affects all the rest of industry, and I can only say this: that we must look to them for some good sense and some wisdom-I mean real business-labor statesmanship...
...religion, and even fewer Protestant voters (42%) know that he is Catholic. In his most recent tabulation, without reference to religion, Gallup found that Kennedy led Vice President Nixon in a straw vote by the comfortable margin of 57% to 43%. By deducting from the totals those voters who say they will oppose a Catholic under any circumstances, Gallup evened the odds: Kennedy, 50%; Nixon, 50%. But he had a final word of statistical encouragement for Kennedy: if Kennedy counts those Republican Catholics who would jump fences to vote for a fellow Catholic, he could hope for a narrow popular...
...robust, rosy-faced companion by a lapel last week, Baltimore's lame-duck Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. grunted a political watchword through the haze and hubbub of an election-night hotel room. Said Tommy: "Be humble, Harold, be as humble as you can when you say it." Nodding politely, J. (for Joseph) Harold Grady, 42, retrieved his lapel, rushed off to deliver his televised victory statement. Grady had small reason to be humble. Two months earlier, in only his second campaign, he had knocked off wily Three-Termer D'Alesandro for mayor in the Democratic primary...
...subcontinent (TIME, May 11). "We do not propose to have a military alliance with any country, come what may, and I want to be clear about it," Nehru said. He was all for settling mutual problems and living in peace with Pakistan, but "I do not understand when people say we must have a common defense policy." He added, ingenuously: "Against whom...