Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Lehman of New York (the host): "No comment...
...least, by Countess Dorothy Filipponi, widow of Ambassador Child. Claiming that she had an equity in The Castle, which she said Mrs. Kaufman obtained in default of a loan, the Countess said she had filed a lien, which must be settled before the property can change hands. Declining to comment upon the lien, Mrs. Kaufman arose from her bed, journeyed to New York, spent an evening with Father Divine and his angels, declared afterward that she had conveyed her property to him. Father Divine announced he would take a boatload of his followers to Newport to inspect The Castle. Meantime...
...Franklin Roosevelt was on record, since as early as 1935, as opposing the "prevailing wage" provision demanded (and heretofore obtained) by union labor. In signing the new Relief Act, Franklin Roosevelt noted other "hardships" worked by it (TIME, July 10), but he passed the 130-hour proviso without comment. Evidently he and his Janizariat had not realized what a cannon-cracker it would...
...prime examples of Americana-but not of dramatic literature-Princeton University Press hopes to publish 100 of them in 20 volumes this autumn, at $75 a set. No one was more surprised than serious, bespectacled Mr. Clark when NBC asked him to supervise production of nine Lost Plays, and comment on them during performance. Historian Clark hates the radio, says he did not know who Kate Smith was when his children lately asked...
...Relief Bill. Comment: It would work a hardship on 8,000,000 people...