Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been following TIME very closely for the last few weeks in some hopes that I would find something of local interest that has attracted much attention and comment. Namely, it is the vote taken recently in Texas on two proposed amendments to the State constitution; one of them providing for an increase of the Governor's salary from $4,000 per annum to the appalling (decided so by the people of Texas) sum of $10,000, the other providing for some reforms in the Texas Supreme Court. However, both of these proposed amendments met with defeat...
...epitome of the strained feelings engendered by the tariff bill which the Senate Finance Republicans last week finished drafting. Best Democratic comment was by Representative McClintic of Oklahoma: "The working man may worry because his shoes will cost a dollar or two more but truffles for his paté de foie gras are on the free list. . . . His sugar bill goes up as does his milk bill and his meat bill but he can get Gobelin tapestries for his humble home duty free...
...Negroes but that he has guessed and reasoned out a lot. His story, simple yet sophisticated, does not go as deep into the way a black man's mind works as, for instance, Eugene O'Neill went in Emperor Jones. It is a white man's comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind of writing. After shooting his brother in an argument about a crap game, a Negro named Zeke turns preacher and converts the girl, Chick...
...Even is a play by Nathaniel Wilson who explained before its premiere that he was making an attempt to adapt to the stage the staccato methods and quick scene changes of cinema. How hopelessly he failed could be gathered from the rude hysteria of his first audience or the comment of Critic Percy Hammond (New York Herald Tribune) who predicted that the cast would be "celebrated in the future for having appeared in the world's worst play...
...General Andrews served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition from 1925 to 1927. Last fortnight he declined to comment on Mrs. Willebrandt's attack, explained he now never discusses Prohibition...