Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Currently Lowell Thomas is best known as a radio commentator employed by Sun Oil Co. Five days a week he works on that program from noon to 7 p. m., reputedly for $2,000 a week. All night, twice a week, he prepares a running comment for Fox Movietone News, reputedly for $500 a week.* Between times he makes talk for Universal's Going Places travelogs, puts in time on a full-length cinema on the Mt. Everest expedition, goes on lecture tours, tends a fur farm at his home in Pawling, N. Y., serves as toastmaster at innumerable...
...politicians with whom I have had contact resent the freedom of the Press when events are going against them. . . . But I deeply and with reason suspect this Administration of more ruthlessness, intelligence and subtlety in trying to suppress legitimate, unfavorable comment than any other I have known...
...this was fortunate not only for the New Deal but for Franklin Roosevelt. Though he makes a public virtue of welcoming "constructive criticism," the President is comparatively sensitive to harsh words. And of late an increasing number of harsh words have been getting into press comment on his Administration. If the President really was losing some of his good will with the nation's publishers, he took a step last week which won him a fresh armful of bouquets from them- and a shower of brickbats from organized reporters. Over the protest of the American Newspaper Guild, President Roosevelt...
...there remained any doubt of Dean Donham's wish to foster a sympathetic attitude between government and business, he dispelled it with his comment on the new course: "It is impossible to extemporize a first-class Civil Service. Twice in 18 years ... we have struggled with social catastrophes made more difficult by the shifting requirements of men perforce hastily gathered together, without training for the purpose, overwhelmed, overworked, and often made arrogant by the magnitude of jobs undertaken all at once. Too frequently these men are incompetent to handle the problems they face; yet their decisions constantly upset business...
...Wilmington, N.C. last week Francis Yonge Legare Jr. (pronounced Leegree), 21, was sentenced to 20 to 25 years in prison for killing a druggist named Mason during an attempted holdup. So extraordinary was this sentence that the judge felt obliged to comment on his own impartiality. Killer Legare is not only white but a member of a famed old Charleston, S. C. family. Druggist Mason was a Negro...