Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went on to say that there was apparently a conspiracy among certain immigration officials, notably Mr. Husband, to do away with Ellis Island, on which the Government has spent many hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Husband refused to> comment. But the higher officials in the Department of Labor were reported to be incensed by Mr. Curran's criticism. They insisted that no favoritism was involved, that the new way was being tried out experimentally in Great Britain and Ireland to see if it would work, that other nations had objected to our establishing stations for examining immigrants in their ports...
When the Department of Agriculture's estimate of the 1925 cotton crop as of July 16 dropped with a thud to 13,588,000 bales (TIME, Aug. 3), no little comment in the trade was occasioned. The report as of August 1 showed less startling changes. Condition had fallen off from 70.4 on the former to 65.6 on the latter date. Nevertheless, the crop was estimated at 13,566,000 bales-only 22,000 bales under the July 16 figure. Losses in Texas owing to drought have apparently been practically offset by gains in more easterly portions...
...Coolidge referred the letter without comment to the State Department...
...Fascist press was silent except for one which under the headline, ORLANDO CONFIRMS AND CONFESSES LIBERAL DEFEAT IN PALERMO, confined itself to printing without comment the ex-Premier's letter of resignation...
...President demurred. "Comment?" said he. His entourage answered with smiles and smiles and President Doumergue entered...