Word: disclaimer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begun moving up the artillery on a weak Democratic flank-the left-wing support for Franklin Roosevelt from P.A.C. and the Communists. Tom Dewey marched ahead without so much as glancing at this temptingly vulnerable spot-until Franklin Roosevelt, needled by the jabs from Republican underlings, rose to disclaim his Communist support. Then, at Charleston, W.Va., Dewey let go hard against the President's "soft" disavowal. Perhaps Franklin Roosevelt doesn't like the Communists, said Dewey, but look how they like...
...broadcasting system. For their money they get the product of a semi-government monopoly which England's pinko New Statesman & Nation terms "the usual British compromise between incompatibles." Constitutionally attached to the office of the Minister of Information-by a clause so elastic that the Minister can always disclaim control of BBC-BBC is theoretically not controlled by the Government. It is theoretically not a private monopoly, either, but a public corporation chartered by Parliament. BBC can therefore, theoretically, avoid the fixed opinion of public, the commercialization of private monopolies. The result of this compromise between white and black...
...First off, to disclaim any political ambitions. (Said he, of one rumor: "I have no ambition to be Vice President; I would not want to be Vice President; under no circumstances would I seek the nomination for Vice President...
...Russians disclaim any intent to "Bolshevize" Europe. That, they say, would be politically inadvisable. But they declare: "We will not tolerate a pro-Fascist regime anywhere on the Continent"-and reserve the right to define pro-Fascist. Like Goebbels, though for different reasons, they find the "Red menace" a useful threat. They say: "If you western fellows want to prevent a social revolution in Europe you'd better march in before us rather than after...
...WITHIN OUR OWN CONSCIENCE TO REMAIN SILENT WHILE SO MANY VOICES ARE RAISED AGAINST A MAN WHO ACTED ACCORDING TO DICTATES OF HIS CONSCIENCE. AS MEMBERS OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY WE DENY THE REPRESENTATION THAT WE ARE ASHAMED OF LEW AYRES AND THAT WE WOULD DISCLAIM HIM. WE ARE NOT ARBITRARILY GROUPED AND MADE ONE WITH THOSE WHO APPEAR TO BE USING THIS OCCASION TO POINT OUT THEIR OWN PATRIOTIC VIRTUE. THE PACK HAS TURNED ON LEW AYRES. EXHIBITORS ARE BOYCOTTING HIS PICTURES. EDITORIALS AGAINST HIM APPEAR IN THE TRADE JOURNALS. ABUSE IS BEING HEAPED UPON HIS HEAD...