Word: unshaken
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...Unshaken Man. The President still seemed supremely confident that there was no political danger to his administration from Bill Boyle. Last week, after Siskind had testified about the $150,000 payoff to Boyle, the rumor ran around Washington that Bill Boyle was through. But Harry Truman faced his press conference, and said his confidence in Bill Boyle was unshaken...
Then Truman launched a counteroffensive that betrayed, for an unshaken man, a certain nervousness. He sent Congress a special message, urging that all important officials of the federal Government and political leaders of both parties be required to make public their annual incomes from all sources. His reason: "Attempts have been made, through implication and innuendo and by exaggeration and distortion of facts, in a few cases, to create the impression that graft and corruption are running rampant in the whole Government...
...Unshaken, Britten gave a repeat performance in The Hague the second night, got a repeat performance from the critics. Back in London at week's end, Conductor Britten admitted that the garden frolic had flopped. As for the critics: "I don't read criticism ever. I wouldn't listen to what the critics say. Why should I read what they write...
Wilson's refusal to waver in the face of the walkout was still unshaken when he flew to Key West to see President Truman. Before boarding his plane-and later at a press conference which followed his visit with the President-he summed up his impression of the dispute: labor had quit in a huff because it could not control manpower allocation between industry and the armed forces. Later, in Washington, he simply said: "I'm damned if I know what they want...
...week's end, Schomaker's devastating testimony was unshaken and the Government had produced another ex-Communist to substantiate it. For the first time in its ten-year effort to deport Harry Bridges to his native Australia, the U.S. seemed to be getting somewhere...