Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representative Harold Knutson, in his column in the Brainerd (Minnesota) "Dispatch," discussed last week the Dies Committee's accusations against the Union for Democratic Action. Knutson cited a great many facts about U. D. A. leaders which in his opinion prove it is an alien group. His comment on Dr. James Loeb, executive secretary of the Union, was that Locb formerly taught Romance languages. --From the Nation, July...
...Jersey Boss Frank Hague, that he had been appointed by the President in a deal for Hague votes next fall, that the Senate had venally confirmed the venal appointment, despite an impassioned protest by venerable Senator George Norris. Less polite than the courtroom dialogue was George Norris's comment: "[If the nation were not busy with war] the Meaney nomination would spread over the country like wildfire, and would bring about the defeat of any official who had anything to do with...
This time, the chief responsibility for confusion was clear: the fault lay with the U.S. press, about whose handling of the week's rubber news the kindest comment would be that the news itself came too fast for predeadline digestion. Even the sober New York Times headlined a sober report to Congress by Jesse Jones: AMPLE NEW RUBBER IN '43 SAYS JONES...
...four-hour talk over the coffee cups, he must have told "the Boss" plenty about the Jap as a fighting man, about Japanese aerial tactics in operation, about the comparative merits of U.S. and Axis air and sea equipment. But outside the White House, Representative Johnson had only one comment: "There is one thing they are not short on out there, and that is courage and guts and fighting spirit. They've got plenty of that...
...handle ten times as many casualties as it had received on the town wharf that day. Villagers were justly pleased with themselves. Said a village physician: "We did a good job. We didn't lose a single survivor-or a single first-aider." The regional director's comment on the local report sounded like Revolutionary days: "I can add no word to this. God bless the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...