Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five other top steelmen for half an hour, then with McDonald and three other United Steelworkers officials for about 20 minutes. At the closed-door meetings, said Press Secretary James Hagerty, Ike "did most of the talking," and was "quite firm." Later that day, the President issued a statement hinting that if the two sides failed to reach agreement by the time he got back from his vacation in California, he would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act's provision calling for an 80-day back-to work period when a strike threatens to "imperil the national health or safety...
DISARMAMENT: "Each stage of disarmament," said Khrushchev in his departing Washington press conference, should be "accompanied by the development of inspection and control." The West, accustomed to Russian doubletalk on disarmament and thoroughly unimpressed by Khrushchev's big U.N. propaganda pitch, took a hard look at this statement, got ready to find out, when the nuclear-test-ban talks resume next month in Geneva, if the Russians will take a more realistic position on inspection...
...prepared statement, President Pusey declared himself "deeply saddened to learn of the death of Bernard Berenson, a distinguished son of Harvard whose gracious presence and confident taste have greatly influenced art and letters...
Nudge from Washington. No less important, De Gaulle had many a Foreign Office in his corner. From the U.S., Secretary of State Christian Herter gave the rebels a nudge with his statement that De Gaulle's "far-reaching declaration" promised "a just and peaceful solution for Algeria." Even Morocco's King Mohammed V and Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, long among the rebels' strongest supporters, were urging the F.L.N. to give De Gaulle "a constructive answer." Glumly, F.L.N. leaders faced the fact that the resolution condemning French policy in Algeria, which they had confidently expected...
...Helena for the book he knew Napoleon had in him, and took dictation till his eyes gave out. Indeed, they all took dictation and kept journals, perhaps suspecting posterity's avalanche of books about Napoleon, though some of the entries are revealingly non-Napoleonic, e.g., Gourgaud's statement that if Las Cases tried to go in to dinner ahead of him again, he would kick...