Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern segregationists. "I am going to put forth every effort,'' he promised, "to organize Southern Governors to create and crystallize public opinion throughout the nation with reference to our traditions and Southern way of life." Crowed State Democratic Chairman Bidwell Adam after the election: "I want to say I'm thankful to God that Ross Barnett has saved Mississippi...
...American bases." In Ceylon he told newsmen: "Don't believe the American press." In Karachi, where he spent 55 minutes of a scheduled one-hour interview fulminating against "American agents" and the U.S. State Department, a weary reporter finally asked: "Haven't you anything new to say...
...objected to, but his departure from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. "In the Church of England there is a considerable degree of liberty allowed to the clergy in interpretation of doctrine and in ceremonial practice. We are both a Catholic and a Reformed Church. That means to say that the Church of England is the official and authorized expression of the one Catholic Church in this country. But at the same time, it has been cleansed of the abuses and corrupt doctrines of the Middle Ages." Asked if many parishioners had been converted to Roman Catholicism as a result...
...moviemakers did not have long to wait for an example. No sooner was Augustana Lutheran Heimrich's charge made public than up stepped the Rev. H. K. Rasbach, American Lutheran and a member of the Film Board Committee, to say: "It is decidedly unChristian, after a man has put millions of dollars into a picture, to tell people not to see it. We want the industry to police itself." To that, Hollywood said a loud "Amen," and waited to see what happens next...
...after Fidel Castro's bearded revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime. Written by Oscar de la Torre, Batista's Ambassador to Mexico at the time, the letter confirmed what everyone had long suspected-that Aldo Baroni, columnist for Mexico City's daily Excelsior, had taken money to say nice things about Dictator Batista. The ambassador wrote to a presidential aide in Havana: "Our friend Villaboy gave me a check for $4,000. Following instructions of the President [i.e., Batista], I endorsed the check to Senor Aldo Baroni...