Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Aug. 26 story on Confidential and Hollywood: please be more careful in future about associations. It isn't that those of us in publicity object so much to your flat statement, "Tips for stories were handed the Meades . . . by a shadowy legion of informants who ranged from call girls and pressagents . . ." It's just that our wives are asking, if we are in this classification, how come our take home pay is so little...
...Warning. Dulles and Henderson began to make their point for all the world to hear. State issued a statement that Henderson had found, in his talks with the leaders of Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, a unanimous "deep concern lest Syria should become a base for further threatening the independence and integrity of the region." State spread carefully publicized word that it was speeding up shipments of U.S. arms to Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, presumably to meet the needs of the crisis. C124 Globe-masters began trundling the first loads of recoilless antitank rifles from Greece and Libya...
After the first rash of headlines, the U.S.-publicly and officially-took the announcement as it should have been taken: calmly. Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower took note of the Communists' "boastful statement." NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad noted tersely that the Russians had made blackmail threats before, had failed before. "Then," he said, "the alliance was unshaken, even unimpressed. So it will...
...lead was piling up on election night, Senator-elect Proxmire, already packing his bag, telephoned Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who was celebrating his 49th birthday, and made a statement that no Democrat or Republican in Washington would challenge. "Senator Johnson." he said, "I've got the biggest birthday present...
...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette suggested that the waiting correspondents could well sing the new ditty, I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles. Cabled the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech from Hong Kong: "In the opinion of the correspondents, the Dulles statement authorizing them to travel to China (TIME, Sept. 2) was deliberately and provocatively contrived to leave the Reds no choice but to refuse." At his regular news conference, Secretary of State Dulles said that the U.S. would "consider on its merits" any application by a Chinese newsman to enter the U.S. To some, this seemed...