Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this not an ironic comment on Prohibition? If the Secretary of State is allowed to sip, however sparingly, may we not expect a reasonable immunity from the law if we also sip? Should not Congress issue a list of those who may sip and those who will be arrested if they are caught sipping? Then you would not be troubled with letters from curious people like myself...
Whether "Feng the Mighty" will be permitted to shoulder this giant's burden-and incidentally to pocket Shantung-was not clear last week. At Nanking other Nationalist leaders were loath to comment; but Finance Minister T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of President Chiang Kaishek, did reveal that he has worked out a program for disbanding all but 715,000 of the new State's 1,500,000 troops. Whether some, any or all of Marshal Feng's troops would be disbanded, shrewd Dr. Soong would...
...Sharon. Pa., president of the association. Irate, President Weller talked chiefly of racketeers, recommended that the association go on record as being "unalterably opposed" to racketeering (see Letters), and refuse association membership to any dyer and cleaner known to have racketeering connections. Dyers and cleaners feel that unjust, unfavorable comment on racketeers has gravely injured the dyeing and cleaning industry...
...from the presidency of Michigan University will undoubtedly cause widely divergent discussion throughout the country on the possible reason for his action. Any man who has so continually been before the public eye, and who has distinguished himself by activity in a number of different fields undoubtedly deserves such comment...
...whole press praised the new Dictatorship. The German Monarchist Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung approved "this fresh proof of the futility of parliamentarianism"; but the Socialist Vorwaerts sneered savagely at "the Surgeon-King who seeks to cure his sick state by plunging in the bayonet." Perhaps the most restrained and weighty comment came from Editor Arnaldo Mussolini (brother of Benito), who carries on the family newspaper Il Popolo d'It alia ("The People of Italy") in Milan...