Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact finders in the first place; the board itself had reiterated that details should be worked out in company-by-company bargaining. If that didn't suit Murray, then a steel shutdown would be on Murray's head. Up to that point Fairless had made no comment whatever on the virtue of the fact finders' recommendations. Now, while the rest of the steel world listened respectfully, he commented at length...
...emerged. This time Murray made his meaning quite clear. To reporters he said: "If by late Saturday night the companies have not agreed to 4? for insurance and 6? for pensions on a noncontributory basis, the mills will go down. I can say that flatly." Steel operators had no comment. Ching, still hopeful, looked forward to another meeting the next...
...Francis . . .?" a reporter started to ask. "No comment," grumbled Lewis. "Is it true that Senator Bridges is about . . .?-" began another. "No comment." The reporters paused. "All right. All right," said their host. "Sorry I can't work for you boys all the time but I have other clients...
John Lewis had no need for further comment. The word had already gone out. To U.S. coal miners, he was plainly proclaiming that the coal industry had declared war on widows, orphans, and the lame, halt and blind, and that a strike was in order. As John L. had prophesied, the halt in royalty payments had caused "reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry...
...things that interest me and that I hope will interest them." His sponsor, Lee Hats, decided on Montgomery (reportedly at $5,000 per week) when Lee ended its 3½-year tie-up with Gossipist Drew Pearson. Asked his opinion of his predecessor, Montgomery replied with a brisk "No comment." But he admitted that "I'm not going to use a crystal ball on this program...