Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going so far. It was also natural that the press of a capitalist, free-enterprising democracy should blame Britain's Socialist government and its works (e.g., nationalization of coal and railroads, the billion-dollar-a-year health plan) for a lot of Britain's trouble. U.S. press comment ranged from the thoughtful view that Britain's Socialist regime had merely aggravated a British economic weakness of long standing, to sharp criticism and invective ("The old British' backbone is turning to putty...Here is that beggar again...
Some American comment was indeed impolite and some of it was unfair; a great deal more was sound and factual, and it could have given British readers a close view of their plight, which they appeared never to have gotten so clearly from their own press or their government. Britons who, when they got the U.S. loan, complained that U.S. prices were too high (and would cut down the amount of goods Britain would be able to buy in the U.S.) now cried that U.S. prices were too low; British manufacturers could not compete with them. Other Laborite headlines: "Stop...
...minutes of unabashed tearjerking." Maggie, the daughter of an itinerant beanpicker, was rescued from social ostracism by the beautiful Baptist mission worker, Miss Lacey, whose well-modulated voice converted Maggie from a self-pitying brat to a self-sacrificing angel. As the program ended, the listeners began hurling comment and criticism at the head of Chicago Theological Seminary's Professor Ross Snyder, moderator of the session and co-chairman of Chicago's Religious Radio Workshop...
...radio industry exploded into instant insurrection. ABC (Stop the Music and twelve other giveaways) was apparently elected to carry the ball. At week's end, while NBC and Mutual retired behind the breastworks of "No comment," ABC let fly a ringing announcement: "No changes will be made in ABC programs as a result of the FCC regulations. We feel certain that...injunctive relief will be granted to the radio industry...as a result of litigation which ABC will begin immediately." CBS announced it would join in seeking court review of the ruling...
...closeted with members of the subcommittee three times. What had the Senators asked him? Maragon was evasive-happy but evasive. The whole thing, he implied, was simply a formality, one of those things a man who knows the right people must endure. The committee was then asked for comment. The Senators, ahum, were not talking either. At week's end Mysterious John Maragon seemed to be just as mysterious as ever...