Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month, when labor-reform legislation was at bitter issue in the House, Ike went on radio and television to urge a strong bill. He immensely enjoyed going over the drafts of his speech, and he took special pleasure in trying to outfox the Democratic opposition: he deliberately inserted a statement that, since he was barred from seeking reelection, he could only be speaking in the public interest. Behind that statement was the idea of foreclosing to the opposition the free and equal network time required for answering political speeches. It was in this same spirit of paying attention to political...
...about 1960 on this November's political polls: whether they showed that he, rather than Vice President Richard Nixon, would be the stronger G.O.P. candidate. But the polls had Nixon far ahead and increasing his lead (TIME, Aug. 24). Rockefeller called an Albany news conference, said of his statement about relying on the polls:*"I should like to state that I have never made such a statement." His decision, he said, would be based upon his weighing of his own ability to render public service...
Norwegian Date. New York's Rockefeller understood perfectly, accepted Bridges' statement graciously. But in visiting and posing for pictures with Styles Bridges, he had effectively made known his interest in the New Hampshire primary, served notice on New Hampshire
...landed in Fidel Castro's Cuba. To the delight of Brazilians, who regard avoiding taxes as a kind of fifth freedom, Ultima Horn reported that the only reason Birrell did not want to go home was a mere matter of income tax evasion. O Globo reported a Chaloupe statement that Birrell wanted to build a $14 million electronics plant in Brazil, and that "it can only be deduced that interests that do not want to lose these markets are causing difficulties." Another newspaper called the waiting Hallisey a mercenary hounding Birrell for a supposed $150,000 reward-a bounty...
...plastic surgeon in Tokyo caddishly blabbed that the bosom of the new Miss Universe, Japan's Akiko Kojima, is bolstered with interior plastics, declared that he had given shapely (37-23-38) Akiko injections just before she went to California. The doctor's statement drew a blushing denial from Akiko, got a stormy rise out of her mother. "Terrible! Terrible!" cried Mrs. Hisako Kojima. "How could she have had an operation? She's the same size as last year...