Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December, the organization also cried that the referendum, was scheduled during the week preceeding Christmas purposely to garner a small, and winning, vote for the school board. "The Shame Of It!" huge ads in the local paper screamed in black type. The School Board tried to reply with feeble statements from faculty members urging the new schools, but every statement they made served only to strengthen the split in city beliefs. Opposition cries that the Board was trying to push measures through without telling the townspeople what they were doing probably held more than a grain of truth. Until...
...opened a panel discussion of Harvard after 25 years with this gloomy statement on the problems facing the Committee on Admissions...
...that the President, at a critical time in French affairs, paid a press-conference tribute to Charles de Gaulle: "I will say this: I happen to be one of those people that liked him." And within hours of De Gaulle's accession, the White House put out a statement that wrapped up the President's devout hopes for the difficult days ahead: "We are gratified that the French crisis is now being resolved. General de Gaulle has assumed heavy responsibilities at a critical juncture in French history. We look forward to the continuation of the intimate and friendly...
...photographs: one of the late Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, one of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and one of De Gaulle. The Moslem owner of the hut, asked why he kept those particular pictures, replied: "Because they are chiefs." To Delbecque the deeper significance of this statement was obvious: bring De Gaulle back to power and the Algerian Moslems would rally to France again...
...eyed from exhaustion. General Motors' chunky Vice President Louis G. Seaton stomped out of a 14½-hour bargaining session with United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther shortly after one midnight last week and issued a grave statement. For the first time, said Seaton, the nation's biggest manufacturer and its second biggest union would have to work together without a contract because it was "impossible" to agree...