Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board met in Washington behind closed doors in its usual manner, and subsequently departed gravely with only a formal statement to the press. The latter stated that "business is progressing conservatively and on a sound basis," but failed to comment on the proposed Cuban branch of the Boston Reserve Bank-one of the liveliest internal questions in the Reserve system today. The statement also expressed the opinion "that there appeared to be no reason why Federal Reserve Bank rates should be increased at this time...
...sugar brokers, for several weeks the target of various and unflattering comment from all sides, have taken heart and are stating their side of the case with vigor. One prominent Sugar Exchange member is reported to have declared: " Those who advocate a boycott on sugar, the politicians and publicity seekers, have no idea whatever of the present status of the sugar crop. Most of them, as a matter of fact, don't know where our sugar comes from. But they all join in the hurrah of 'cut down on sugar,' mostly for the reason that it gets...
According to the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, for the last statistical period of 12 months' commercial flying in the United States there was a total of 130,736 separate flights, covering 2,907,245 miles and carrying 122,512 passengers without a single fatality. This bears out comment in the item above. But to ensure safe flying, good equipment is essential, and aviation circles are bitterly protesting against the policy of the Army Air Service in recently selling surplus, war airplanes by the hundreds. If used by irresponsible aviators in carrying passengers, this equipment, now five or six years...
...step out of the press box at the Polo Grounds and exchange his ordinary raiment for a Giant baseball uniform there might be a riot. Certainly the sight of a writer's calves in the Old-Glory barber-pole sox of the Giants would arouse something more than comment. If the fans remained in their seats, content to hurl epithets and hot dogs, the outbreak would be postponed only until the scribe scuttled savagely in from third to field a bunt. In other words, the scrivener, be he ever so brilliant as a baseball writer, would probably make...
Charles E. Hughes: " I attended a skit of the State Department Dramatic Club in which I was represented on the stage. Asked an interviewer : ' Mr. Secretary, can you tell us the height of the Washington Monument ? ' My double replied: ' Really I can't comment on that; but I may say confidentially that it is said to be 555 feet high...