Word: talked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some 80 promptly had their privileges restored. At Hyde Park, where he had Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he spied a handsome Persian rug which he had presented to F.D.R. six years ago. Beaming, he got down on his knees, fingered it, and made a short talk on the technique of Oriental rug making. (The test of a good Persian rug: at least 100 knots per square inch...
...economy were beginning to look more like a blueprint for disarmament. Wrote Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop last week: "Wartime control of the Mediterranean has probably now been cast away . . . The security of the United States and the safety of the free world are being daily impaired; yet smart talk of economy is all the explanation...
Adenauer rejects Kurt Schumacher's talk of a welfare state and a controlled economy as remedies for Germany's economic ills. He believes that, under "free incentives, and with some foreign investment, German industriousness can produce enough to give all Germans work and a decent standard of life...
...eight successive days, ending last Friday, the United Nations Political and Security Committee listened to talk about plans for peace-one submitted by Russia and one by the United States and Britain. Then the Committee took a vote, deciding in favor of the western proposal. Both of the plans were apparently presented mainly for propaganda purposes and the odds are that the world will get no more peace than it had before the choice was made...
Vilfan, who will appear under the auspices of the Liberal Union, has not defined the exact nature of his talk, but according to Leland J. Schoen '52, publicity director for the HLU, he will discuss Yugoslavia's relations with Russia and the United States in international affairs...