Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist and thus, as an alien-born member of a party urging the overthrow of the Government by force and violence, still liable to deportation? For three and a half months Judge Sears considered the evidence, last week turned in a 185-page report to Attorney General Biddle. Its gist: Bridges was a Communist...
Last week Ed Kelly again pounded the table, again gave Franklin Roosevelt advice. Its gist...
After the broadcast the Shah sent a messenger to Britain's whip-smart Minister Sir Reader William Bullard. The gist of his message: "What do I do now?" The answer, polite but inflexible, was what the Shah expected. Getting into his limousine, he drove to town. There he left a letter with his brand-new Prime Minister Ali Feroughi. Then he drove south, 200 miles to Isfahan...
Since 1930 the U.S. newspaper business has been in a downward economic spiral which is not yet stopped. Such is the gist of a 59-page survey issued last week by the Newsprint Association of Canada, 75% of whose paper is sold to the U.S. press. Some of the things which the Canadian newsprint makers view with alarm...
...quieter attack on Henderson was under way by the Republican National Committee. Its research division circulated (among Republican members of the Banking & Currency Committee) a confidential study which blistered Leon's britches: "Table-thumping and bellowing tactics. . . . Cannot resist the use of invective . . . capricious actions . . . anti-business views." Gist of the study: a price bill is necessary but it should: 1) clearly define and limit its powers; 2) counteract "the tacit encouragement of the Administration in wage increases"; 3) give power not to Henderson but to someone who "merits the confidence of business...