Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Senator Wheeler grumbled because Broker Young had not ousted leftovers from the Van Sweringen regime and complained that U. S. railroads are controlled by men who lack practical experience, the net summation of a week's rail-road investigation was the chairman's sharp comment on the campaign books. Said he: ". . . I resent the Democratic Committee going to people just prior to their coming here, and soliciting funds. . . . It might give the impression that people had to give money to get proper treatment...
...most of ten years the best of many columns in Manhattan, on Manhattan, for Manhattan has been "Notes and Comment," which leads off The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. Last week's column, best & saddest of them all, was devoted to Manhattan's most popular mythical character, the top-hatted dandy (portrayed, in the full pride of youth, by Artist Rea Irvin) who on the first cover of The New Yorker, and every year on its anniversary issue in mid-February stares through his monocle at a butterfly...
...impartiality, flatly denied that he had asked for reports on the Board's work. In the President's opinion the fact that the Board had been attacked by both Labor and Capital was conclusive evidence that both sides were being fairly treated. Congressman Rankin's comment: "The President has evidently been misinformed. I know he means well...
...into the baggage car where he is sitting with two detectives. Hale opens the door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There is nothing much left of They Won't Forget after that except Reporter Brook's mildly rueful comment to District Attorney Griffin after Hale's widow has called them a pair of murderers: "Now that it's over, Andy, I wonder if he really...
...They faced obstacles too great to overcome," said cautious Cosmo Gordon Lang, "and it is not for us to comment on these obstacles." But to inquire, take counsel, an I commiserate over what has become a dramatic change of tide in the affairs of Church & State were precisely why most of the delegates were there...