Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dealing Chicago Sun needled New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey with a sly "The Cat's Got His Tongue" (see cut). At the American Legion's convention last week, Front-Runner Dewey publicly endorsed universal military training, thus evoking from Legionnaire Harold E. Stassen the comment that it was nice to hear Mr. Dewey taking a stand on something...
...Governor Earl Warren. The press was promptly awash in dewy anticipation. "We did a little sight-seein'," reported Folsom, a widower and father of two. "And ... we had some dinner and dancin'." Was it serious between him and Virginia? "That's a 'no comment' question, honey," said he. But he was shortly moved to an extension of remarks. "Takin' a girl out is all part of nature," mused the rough-hewn Governor. ". . . And I'm a man who likes to get close to nature...
Free for 30 days on a $20,000 bond, while his attorneys filed motions for a new trial, Soviet Agent Eisler had a curious comment on justice. Said he: "It was a fair trial on a very unfair indictment...
Counterpoint. Walter S. Tower, slight, sandy-haired president of the American Iron & Steel Institute, was left officially speechless by FTC's assault, declined all comment. His spokesman, however, predicted that most steel customers would rally to the industry's defense because the multiple basing point system, they say, saves them money...
...Government had been pouty about A.P. for some time, especially since a June dispatch had relayed the uncomplimentary comment of a London daily on Eva Peron's proposed British visit. * Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia discreetly let it be known that it might be a nice idea for slight, 39-year-old Rafael Ordorica, head of the A.P. bureau, to leave. Last week A.P. Boss Kent Cooper called Ordorica home "for consultation," because, said he, the correspondent had been in Argentina for six years, and it was time they had a chat...