Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Reuther, U.A.W. vice president and director of the strike, made no comment on a U.A.W. handout which claimed complete victory. But obviously springy, redheaded Reuther could claim some kind of personal triumph. He would go to the U.A.W. convention at Atlantic City this weekend with a substantial campaign argument in his race for the presidency of U.A.W. against President R. J. Thomas...
...ingenious feature of the play that deserves favorable comment is the pleasing stage effects, secured by projection of painted slides on a screen. Except for this innovation "Bernadette" drags through three acts and ten scenes, which leave the spectator wishing he had stayed home and re-read the book...
...full days, then briefly attacked the speech for its "extremely aggressive tone." Three days later the Moscow radio picked up Churchill's charge that Russia had lowered "an iron curtain" across Europe, and retorted that U.S. and British "conservatives" were using "dirty methods of slander." The most significant comment of all came from a high-ranking Russian prosecutor at Nürnberg. After dutiful indignation that Churchill should have abused U.S. hospitality by such a speech, he continued...
Through this constellation of forces Francisco Franco's star was running its course. As to where it would end, a characteristically Spanish story made a characteristically Spanish comment...
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Tory newspaper tycoon (Daily Express circulation, 3,442,366), hopped to the U.S. en route to Bermuda, behaved for all the world like a newspaper-hater. At LaGuardia Field newsmen got a quick "no comment" brushoff. The New York Times, which knows dignity when it sees it, headlined: LORD BEAVERBROOK ARRIVES, IN SILENCE...