Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accustomed to having the President jovially hail them by their first names, were shocked at a White House press conference. The President began with the usual banter - about Secretary Steve Early's coat of tan acquired on vacation. Then someone asked him whether he cared to comment on the bill in Congress to regulate utility holding companies...
Taussig and Harris Comment...
With some trepidation lest I be thought humorless in bothering to comment on the CRIMSON editorial. Donal M. Sullivan...
Thus you climax an Ed 1 chiding the Liberal Club for one of its periodic attempts to stand up on its wobbly legs and make motions. The Liberal Club announces its intention of sending to Congress a petition advocating certain pieces of legislation; you comment, first, ". . . its members are in danger of losing their sense of humor", and last, "What America needs is to be laughed at. . ." . And in the middle, you oracularly assert, "A University is an institution for detached, impartial study of the arts and sciences, contemporary and modern." I repeat...
...situation south of the Rio Grande calls for a genuine diplomat of the highest order, and unfortunately Mr. Daniels is not that. Socialism, the restriction of a free press, the squashing of class rights are not subjects upon which any ambassador representing the American Government should utter public comment, whether laudatory or otherwise. He is there to promote an amiable friendship and understanding between the two countries, not to insult anyone abroad or offend anyone at home. His business is to represent the American form of government and not to give abetment to any other form no matter what...