Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thundered the New York Herald Tribune: "By any standards of common sense the suggestion that Werner Schroeder should succeed Joseph W. Martin . . . would be too preposterous to deserve comment. But the sort of isolationist stupidity which is central over Chicago could not exist if it were not itself isolated from reason. . . . [Schroeder] was still making isolationist speeches just before last week's election. Such a stand . . . makes the suggestion of his name an insult to sound Republicanism. ... If the party wished to commit suicide it could hardly do a quicker or more effective job than by placing a Schroeder...
About six weeks ago the four-page Express started a daily back-page column of comment on the U.S. which is supplemented by special articles. Last month Beaverbrook ordered his ace war correspondent, Alan Moorehead, from the Egyptian battlefront to the U.S. for a series of pieces on America's war effort...
...discussed the urgent need for food in the West Indies; with William Green and Philip Murray he talked again about manpower (see p. 18). He also discussed the possible appointment of a food czar. He gave no aid to solving the censorship muddle (see p. 61), by refusing comment on reports from London that U.S. troops are in Liberia and rebuffing any mention of General Dwight Eisenhower's military movements...
...accumulated a solid reputation for sound reporting of naval affairs. Then he included the Army in his field. He wrote books (United We Stand, Strategy for Victory, The Caissons Roll, Admiral Death, What the Citizen Should Know About the Navy). After Dec. 7, he wrote a column of signed comment. His reputation grew...
...Comment. In Manhattan, a jury awarded two gamblers who brought a $100,000 suit for false imprisonment damages of a penny apiece...