Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There seems to be considerable comment these days for & against the term "G.I. Joe" as applied to our soldiers (TIME, Feb. 5). I would like to advance my claim to what I believe to be the origin of the term...
...regretfully announced: "We join in the call." From the Richmond News Leader and the Alexandria Gazette came dissenting opinions. Able Powell Glass, the Senator's eldest son, who runs the Glass-owned Lynchburg News and the Lynchburg Advance, dutifully gave his readers a report of the discussion, without comment...
Virginia politicos were stonily silent. From grey Mrs. Carter Glass, the Senator's second wife and constant, devoted attendant, came a terse "no comment"; from the onetime Secretary of the Treasury, who had taken his last Senatorial oath at his Lynchburg home, in carpet slippers, came no public response whatever. But this week reporters heard that the question of resignation had been put up to him. The man Franklin Roosevelt once called an "unreconstructed rebel" gave his answer...
Uruguay made no official comment. Rumor had it that Congressmen would soon be recalled from summer vacations to declare war in a special session...
Some ask why Don Strauss, and Bea Nielsen are so chummy of late--a smile on the lips of many third decors will reveal the answer. Our premature "obituary" on Cagey Pickle caused some comment. Hereafter we will venture to predict nothing. M.C. Smith, who is getting older by the day, is nominated by the Millsaps Mariner, Bill Stark, as an eager beaver--how come? Jim "Cadence" Polhemus finally brought marine cadence to Briggs Cage. Yes, "the Hook" really got his chance when "the Orator" instigated rotating command. This innovation has uncovered many varieties of cadence existing here...