Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were led by President Eisenhower, persuading Republicans, buttonholing his friends, conferring in friendly fashion over whisky and soda with Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and Democratic House Speaker Sam Rayburn at the White House. At his third weekly press conference in a row, the President read a long, prepared statement urging fiscal responsibility: "I don't believe that we should have higher taxes, and I do not believe that the U.S. wants higher taxes. That means to me living within your income...
...employees. The men asked for time to find new jobs and went into an abortive sit-down strike, but the management was unmoved. Last week came helping hands from two Roman Catholic churchmen. Achille Cardinal Lienart, Bishop of Lille, and Emile Maurice Guerry, Archbishop of Cambrai, issued a joint statement about the responsibilities of managers toward the managed...
...long from rattling his dead bones. Today Mark Twain's often irreverent notions about God, Bible and his fellow men seem no more fearsome than a day in a college classroom. By the lights of modern determinist psychology, for instance, there is scarcely anything startling in this statement: "Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel-like Stanford White*-and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature. [The human race] did not invent itself, and it had nothing to do with the planning of its weak and foolish character...
With this statement, coach Jack Barnaby summed up yesterday's surprising loss to a mediocre, but hard fighting team. This is not a case of bitterness over a close loss, for Barnaby's sportsmanship is well known, but he was frank to add, "While I have lost before, I have never had such an unpleasant experience in 26 years of coaching...
...statement coincided with Washington advices that President Eisenhower had intervened personally to support Iran's Shah in dealing with Moscow...