Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyers, accountants, and other expenses of the job. But last week a report made public by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee showed that Bridges had actually drawn $12,000 extra from the fund to pay for professional advice. Some time next month, said the embarrassed Senator, he would tell the "full story" and maybe he would quit the union job, to boot...
...Dubinsky's life is the union. Immensely likable, he is cordial to everyone, but intimate with no one. He takes home to dinner anybody he happens to be working with. Home is what he calls "a good proletarian penthouse" on unfashionable West Sixteenth Street. (Says Dubinsky: "I never tell reporters, because right away they say, 'aha, a labor leader lives in a penthouse,' as though a labor leader shouldn't be comfortable.") He pays $190 a month rent, lives there with his wife, their divorced daughter and her child Ryna, who is the apple...
Last week, as Perón bade him goodbye at Moron airport, Ambassador Bruce could tell himself that he had fulfilled Harry Truman's 1947 orders to "go down and make friends with those people." He could also say that he had made some dent in Argentine economic thinking...
...when Dr. William Beebe made his record ocean descent in his baby blue Bathysphere off Bermuda, he had to stop at 3,028 feet because the cable was about to run out. As he crawled out on deck after being pulled up, Scientist Beebe announced: "I'll tell the world that this is the last time I'll attempt record-breaking dives which really have no scientific value...
...York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram also took a cautious view. He saw "encouraging signs" of an uptrend, but he also called at the White House to tell President Truman how production and new investment could be stimulated by tax cuts. Among his recommendations...