Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds' national committee met and drafted a soothing statement that "the key approach continues to be defending the revolution." Castro himself said nothing, but the sugar union leaders were obviously doing his bidding. While soft on individual Communists, Castro apparently fears that if the Reds gain a wide popular base, such as labor, they will challenge his position as people's hero...
...call a primary strike all across the nation that will straighten out the employers once and for all." Hoffa's outrageous threat brought outraged reactions in the press and on Capitol Hill. Taken aback for once, Hoffa loudly denied that he had ever made such a statement. But no one was so stupid as to believe his denial. He had, in fact, made the statement into a microphone wired to a tape recorder, and there it all was, in Hoffa's voice...
Reel Three: Coleman's political opponents were already making hay out of his FBI call, and the Wilkins statement was material for their hayrakes. "Wilkins gave Coleman a nice bouquet of roses wrapped in gold foil," cried State Democratic Chairman Bidwell Adam, charging that Coleman wanted "to sew up the 25,000 Negro votes." Barred by law from another term, Coleman is backing Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin. But in the aftermath of the Parker case, amid strong rumors that the FBI would have the killers this week, Coleman's support of Gartin was less than an asset. Said...
...Khan and to exploit the feeling in both lands that this might be the last chance for a peace. Last week, boarding his plane for the U.S., Black said cheerfully: "We have reached agreement on certain principles, which we hope will lead to a final settlement." Reserved though the statement was, it is the best news on the Indus waters that anyone has reported since the bloody days of partition...
Schlesinger revealed that the committee has reached "a final decision" and will make a formal recommendation to the Radcliffe trustees on June 9. But he refused to make any statement about the identity of the nominee, beyond the assurance that "it's neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Clare Booth Luce...