Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found General Calixto Garcia, leader of Cuban insurgents, and delivered his oral message (not a letter, Elbert Hubbard to the contrary). The "message" asked General Garcia about the strength of his troops, which were to collaborate with the U. S. Army in fighting Spain. President McKinley's comment, when he and his Cabinet received Hero Rowan, was: "Colonel, you have performed a very brave deed...
...contrast to some press writers who have accused me of blaming Depression II on the sunspots, it is refreshing to find your comment [TIME, July 11] that in my book on sunspots I "ventured the opinion that sunspots may affect human psychology, etc." I especially appreciate your italics...
...year-old Governor Allred (TIME. July 18), the story was that there had been a political deal: Son Elliott Roosevelt had got his friend Mr. Allred the Judgeship and Mr. Allred would help Elliott get elected to office, perhaps the lieutenant-governorship in 1940. Prompt and explicit in his comment was Son Elliott: "I do not plan to run for any political office now, two years from now or four years hence...
...backwardness of the U. S. dance, a group of younger U. S. dancers decided that something ought to be done to bring it up to date. To these reformer-minded dancers, sex appeal, pretty costumes, toe technique were not enough. They wanted to express and depict serious things, to comment on present-day problems...
...From the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he was undergoing treatment for a stomach ulcer, the President's son authorized the statement that he "naturally is indignant over certain outright misrepresentations . . . he has requested his attorneys to consider the matter for future conference." Mr. Johnston's comment was: "Let 'em sue. I have only scratched the surface on Jimmy." Young Roosevelt as a whiskey insurance man and Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy as a whiskey salesman had found their dealings with each other un usually satisfying, according to Mr. Johnston's article. Sailing back...