Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strachey had less than a day to clear his desk at the Air Ministry, before plunging into the welter of technical problems involved in British Labor's self-proclaimed world leadership against hunger. In a candid, highly' successful press conference, he mended Sir Ben's bad press relations by promising full advance information on food policies. Then he announced importations of a greater variety of foodstuffs, including long missed apples and oranges. Three days after taking office, Strachey made a brilliant speech in the House of Commons. "Famine, like peace, is indivisible . . ." he said. "This nation will...
...firm line of the Western powers had cleared the air before the Council met. The prompt U.S. and British refusal to grant the UNO postponement Russia had requested, coming hard on Byrnes's and Churchill's candid speeches, left Moscow in no doubt that the West meant business...
Inside, Churchill rose to speak. Once more the voice of democracy was raised. The great debate between Churchill and Stalin went on (see INTERNATIONAL). Could the U.S. no longer tell its candid friends from its calculating competitors...
...Claus what they wanted for Christmas. I thought I'd just like to sit somewhere and take pictures of those faces." The following Christmas he took a leave of absence from the PI, rigged his camera inside a box so that he could snap the children unseen, sold candid shots of moppets on Santa's knee, at $1 a print. Last year he had to hire 15 helpers to handle the business, and the line-up of parents and children blocked traffic. In all, he took pictures of 25,000 children...
...fanned the General's casual and candid remark into an inflammatory "attack," and the torch had been taken up by Jewish leaders who are usually responsible, by some who are usually not, and by comedians like Eddie Cantor (TIME, Jan. 14). Even the New York Times had tossed some faggots on the blaze. Its off-the-cuff editorial judgment of General Morgan's remarks: "It was an insult to six million tortured dead." Walter Winchell, who writes for the Hearst press, said it louder: "Morgan must not only be fired, he must be repudiated by His Majesty...