Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vallauris, France, Irving Berlin and I met Picasso; he'd been making abstract statues-incorporating broken bits and pieces from his children's toys (one creation had a tin washbasin in its stone stomach and a toy propeller imbedded in its navel). We promised to send the children some new toys and asked Louis Marx to ship a few and bill us (which he never did). Santa Marx sent a huge crate of toys, but it took two years for the children to finally receive them, because French customs officials were wary of the consignment. Because...
...George C. Marshall wrote: "First of all I want to send our congratulations on the wonderful 'Marx article' in TIME and on being 'the cover' for our leading news magazine. It is a great honor and so justly deserved. General Marshall and I are delighted that it has come...
...ambulance with his son the 115 miles to a Chicago hospital, where the boy's mother met them. From all over the U.S. had come messages of sympathy. Wired Dwight Eisenhower: "Distressed to read on the ticker that your son John has been seriously injured. I send you my most prayerful hopes that he will soon recover." Wired Stevenson's rival, Estes Kefauver: "Terribly sorry to hear of your son's accident. My prayers and thoughts are with...
...convention. The convention, if authorized, could revise Section 141 of the Virginia constitution which, like similar laws in 44 other states, now prohibits the use of public funds for private schools. Revision would open the way to publicly financed "tuition grants," which would foot the bills for parents to send children to segregated private schools anywhere in the state. Corollary legislation under the Gray plan would allow school boards to assign pupils to public schools at their own discretion-and discrimination...
...home department of Eure, he urged, in five or six speeches a day, an end to colonial wars abroad and "immobilism" at home. He was constantly interrupted. Usually Mendeès ignored the burly hecklers who make race-hate their specialty, but once, when someone at a rally cried "Send the Jews to Africa!", the ex-Premier shot back acidly: "I thought the Nazis were gone from France." The crowd applauded and heard him out. At the end of his speech, Mendès, like all aspiring politicians, had to undergo a process known as the contradictoire, in which...