Word: speech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acheson was confirmed, 83 to 6. But Vandenberg's speech reflected a change in the bipartisan foreign policy wrought by the election. Before the election, a Republican Congress and a Democratic Administration had shared the responsibility for foreign policy. Now that the Democrats had their own majority, the Republicans, as one of their Senate leaders put it, had only a "secondary responsibility...
...Joseph Hayes; produced by Charles P. Heidt) was the worst sort of drivel-the pretentious sort. Dredging up everything stark, fleshly and Freudian in the theater from early O'Neill to Tennessee Williams, it became a kind of Carryall Named Desire. Without taste or talent, ear for speech or eye for character, Playwright Hayes showed how a city boy's dissolute family and a country girl's disapproving one worked to prevent their marrying. Seldom has the course of true love run rougher-among souses and trollops, past theft and rape. Love eventually triumphed, but Leaf...
Truman's speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was the slow movement in the spectacle. When he had finished, the carnival spirit returned in the roaring, foot-stamping applause from the bleachers, in the chimes from the Epiphany Church, in the ruffles and flourishes of the Marine Band. Just before the Inaugural Parade, the image flickered hysterically and there was a spell of "operating difficulties...
...President proved the outstanding star of a good show. Time after time, TV showed Harry Truman in a folksy moment : as he got into his overcoat after the speech on Capitol Hill, when he sat in the wrong seat in the presidential box and, with unflustered stolidity, moved to the right one. The star* even managed to give his white tie and tails the informal look of a comfortable business suit...
Wall Street's chronic invalid, the stock market, was sitting up in bed again. The market, which had been edging up, seemed encouraged by the President's inaugural speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end, the Dow-Jones industrial average had recovered more than half of its 19-point drop following the November election. At 181.54, the industrial average was only 8.65 points short of its pre-election high mark. Even the airline stocks, which had been in the worst doldrums of all, perked up at news of dwindling deficits; their gains outran the market...