Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...negotiations since January, had extended the deadline once-until April 30. Now time was running out. Both Murray and Reuther were obviously piqued that management had stolen their thunder by dealing first with the Red-wired electrical workers. But the Big Three meeting broke up with no word of results. Walter Reuther went back to Detroit, still breathing intransigence...
From the hinterland of coal-hungry France, word reached Paris that a rich coal mine had been discovered at Tremolin in the Loire Department. Interministerial conferences were held. Then came the decree, signed by the President of the Government and the Ministers of Industrial Production, Finance and National Economy. It said: "All mining installations, materials, patents and licenses, buildings for housing the workers and other industrial chattels belonging to the Tremolin Mining Corporation, owned by Monsieur Jacques Garden are confiscated and declared state property...
...Words gushed out from all directions; though the word everyone was waiting to hear-that Princess Elizabeth was formally engaged to ex-Prince Philip of Greece -was not spoken. Prime Minister Attlee cabled: "Simple dignity . . . wise understanding . . . have endeared you to all classes. . . ." London's Daily Worker sneeringly recalled "her only recorded political pronouncement" (made when she was seven): "that . . . she would have a law passed granting holidays for horses...
Grey-haired Grace Coolidge, 68, also contributed a footnote to the history books. In his latter days, she disclosed, "Silent Cal"* sometimes didn't say a word for two months. "There is no greater training for a woman," she pointed out, "than to live with a man who does not speak for two months. . . . But," she insisted, "he had his moments. He really...
...actual word-count, Calvin Coolidge was one of the most publicly garrulous Presidents in U.S. history, up to his time...