Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue's Clete Roberts from Rome: "I met an American soldier. He came up to me and said: 'The President is dead. I feel so funny. I've got to talk to somebody.' That was how I learned. . . ." Tchaikovsky & Prayers. As poignant as any broadcast comment was a quiet, all-but-casual account by CBS's John Daly, for four years the net's Presidential announcer, who simply described, a few of the President's personal characteristics as he had known them. NBC's longtime Presidential announcer Carleton D. Smith reminisced...
General Ike's statement contained nothing which had not been copiously speculated on by military observers. But his letter, released by the White House without comment, gave the observation an official tone. Now the U.S. people had it straight from their top commander in Europe: hundreds of thousands of their soldiers might have to spend the summer and the fall and perhaps longer, rooting the Germans out of military pockets, just as the Japs had to be burned out of their caves...
...statements, twice addressed the Council on Foreign Relations (in Chicago and Manhattan), and spoke at a testimonial meeting for New York's Congressman Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and delegate to the conference. His two most frequent phrases of the week: "Sorry, no comment on that," and "Nothing has happened to shake my belief that...
When pressed for comment, Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts stated, "He died a true soldier, fighting in his country's cause. His administration will go down as one of the most momentous in the life of our country...
With regard to the compensation of executives, Swope remarks that ". . . the compensation of officers and of the leading men in the organization . . . should be in the form of salary plus a share in the profits of the company." He goes on to comment that "There is no real or valid reason . . . why any salary other than the president's and possibly the chairman's should be made public. When the officers (of large companies) all know each other . . . (this practice) only produces envy and impairs the morale of the organization...