Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Responsible." But three hours later the news was official. Paul Hoffman, now nominated as the boss of ECA, called another press conference. It was a different Hoffman who confronted nearly 100 newsmen, photographers and newsreel men in the Statler Hotel's Congressional Room. His answers were prompt and candid. He was supposed to be a hard-boiled businessman, said a reporter. Would he be hard-boiled with Europe? "The money we put up for European recovery can only stimulate Europe's economy," he said. "It cannot create...
...George Lyndon Carpenter, 75, retired international General of the Salvation Army (1939-46); after an operation; in Sydney, Australia. He joined the Army at 19, rose through the ranks, served autocratic General Bramwell Booth as Literary Secretary for twelve years, until Booth demoted him in 1927 for being too candid in his advice. He became a Territorial Commissioner in 1933, succeeded Bramwell's famed sister, Evangeline, as General six years later...
...dynamic old man. And Toscanini, unnaturally docile about it all, was in top form. No less adroit was the photography of Director Hal Keith's three cameras. The television eye followed the music smoothly as it proceeded from section to section of the orchestra. It caught some remarkably candid glimpses of the maestro that concertgoers never see: Toscanini's glittering eyes, flashing eloquent messages to his musicians; his triumphant roar in the midst of a Wagnerian crescendo; the beads of sweat, glistening on his brow...
...English experience includes an affair with an English scenic designer, satisfying his vague desire since adolescence to go to bed with a white woman; scrapbooks filled with clippings on his flight; dinners in his honor; studies in aeronautics, half-purposeful, partly an excuse for remaining in England; candid talks with Englishmen whose fairness and honesty about India's nationalism are a surprise to him after the Britons he had known in India...
Last night at the Varsity Club, Vaipey met football candidates for the first time, giving his candid opinion of where he thinks Harvard stands and also appraising the qualities he thinks players will need to make the team...