Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been working on this series for over a year now-and for the past three months our experimental broadcasts over Manhattan Radio Station WQXR have been bringing in highly enthusiastic comments from educators and listeners alike. For example. Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard wrote: "I have been learning a lot of history from this broadcast. It's the setting up of the wide chessboard that's so fascinating. Many thanks for the fun, and a new look at things." And Winifred Fisher, Executive Director of the New York Adult Education Council, passed on a comment Dean...
...asked to comment on Candidate Dewey's statement that the New Deal "is saturated with the defeatist theory that America is past its prime." He answered that this was an awful thing to think about at 5 minutes after 11 o'clock in the morning...
...East began to clean up the mess, the Treasury Department offered a soothing comment: the cost of repairing hurricane damage is deductible from income...
Peace and Paralysis. Next in line were the Finns. Minus their chairman, Premier Antti Hackzell, who had suffered a stroke four hours before, they marched up to the Kremlin to learn their fate. Without audible comment they sent the terms to Helsinki. Then the Germans, on orders from Berlin, went back on their agreement to evacuate Finland, began to attack. Angrily, the Finns said a state of war existed with Germany, sent Foreign Minister Carl Enckell to Moscow to give the Government's answer. At week's end there was no sure sign whether Russia's terms...
...finest of anti-Fascist moving pictures. It has become, instead, two hours of handsome, earnest inadequacy, which comes to life only by fits & starts-most memorably in the performances of Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorhead, Steve Geray. A free use of stream-of-consciousness dialogue and of comment by the ghost of one of the escapers, to point the moral and adorn the tale, succeeds only in diluting both, far more regrettably than the old came-the-dawn subtitles used...