Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...published in English last year), Hayes could make a choice of evils. He took the view that Russia, being both totalitarian and pagan, was worse than totalitarian but pious Spain, and that Franco's regime was not as bad as friends of Russia made out. Much of his comment was distinctly unflattering to Franco, however, and he insisted that his text be strictly followed in the translation. It was, except for the circumlocution of one word, "gangster" (which Hayes used in referring to the Falange). The Spanish publishers said there was no Spanish equivalent of "gangster...
...Caesar Petrillo, who was bad on the trumpet. Hurok lets the public pick his artists. He spends hours in the box office, listening to what price seats customers ask for, to judge what traffic an artist will bear. During intermissions he slips quietly through the crowd, eavesdropping on customer comment. Says he: "When I discover an artist I sit in the audience just like the public. ... If you sit 25 minutes without squirming and your eyes and ears are still in his direction, then I personally believe that artist will be a success." In a Paris concert hall he once...
...banquet press conference, the Undersecretary refused to comment on the possibilities of his succeeding Stettinius as American delegate to the United Nations. He expressed little concern with the current troubles with the Soviet Union but viewed our relations with that country as a task of long term but not insoluble difficulty. Disparaging the proposal to sever relations or use economic sanctions against Franco as one which would not accomplish what we wished to achieve, he termed Spain "a very difficult problem...
...either the present or future was somberly tinged, no reflection showed in Harry Truman's face. Next day at his press conference a newsman asked for comment on gloomy newspaper views of U.S. policy in Europe. The President smiled. Hindsight is a great thing, he cracked. What about the coal crisis? The President kept his neck in. He would cross each bridge as he came to it, he said...
What about the Supreme Court appointments? No comment, the President said. Could the President give a slight hint? No comment. Could the President say when he would...