Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...option twice, was $750 in the hole and all but broke when RKO's then-President George Schaefer decided to chance it. Golden closed the deal with Ziemer's agent for $5,000-which Ziemer graciously accepted in lOUs. From the Guaranty Trust Co. Golden got a verbal commitment for financing...
This week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, back from a rest in Hot Springs, Va., introduced his new Under Secretary to a press conference with a verbal bouquet. Smiling and with hands on the back of a chair in the familiar Hull manner, Ed Stettinius said: "This is the climax of my young career." The man who left a $100,000 headship of U.S. Steel to enter Government service, who was generally praised for his work as Lend-Lease Administrator (TIME, Oct. 4), now faced the toughest administrative job of his career. Largely in his hands was the direction...
This was what Franklin Roosevelt had been waiting for. Now the President rolled up his verbal shirt sleeves, whammed one segment of the U.S. press smack on the end of its nose-for-news...
...hrer replied with verbal abuse and with the shelling and occupation of Rome. Italian troops fought back in the suburbs of the capital. But Nazi jackboots pounded into the eternal city, up to the gates of the Vatican. In Rome, the Germans held the traffic junction between north and south Italy. They had the best site to set up a puppet Fascist government and to promote civil war among Italians. But by putting the Vatican under their "protection"* they had now, more than ever, arrayed against them Catholicism's power...
After nearly a month of verbal conflict over the food situation in the civilian Houses, the Student Council has succeeded in improving the menus of the dining halls and will issue a statement on its findings following their meeting tonight...