Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route to the conference last week owl-eyed Premier Wang Ching-Wei set an example of close-lipped secrecy which was followed by all except Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, stogie-smoking Christian descendant of Confucius. He felt obliged to comment on President Roosevelt's nationalization of silver as he stepped aboard an airplane at Shanghai. Said Dr. Kung: "We also would like to nationalize silver but for China this is impossible because our Government is hampered by extraterritorial treaties. We do not want the price to skyrocket, for silver is vital to our national life...
...comment which soon came popping from other Episcopal clergymen throughout the city presaged a hot light over Rector Fleming's proposal at the General Convention. Said one: "We're all in favor of it." Said another: "I don't see much sense...
Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, the "E. B. W." who signs much of the fiction and light verse in The New Yorker. He writes many of the captions and taglines in the back of the book. More important, he is the anonymous author of the rapier-like "Notes & Comment" which leads off The New Yorker's famed "Talk of the Town," sometimes called the best column in Manhattan. Shy, gentle, melancholy "Andy" White, 35, was a newsman and adman before joining The New Yorker in 1926?just when Editor Ross needed him most. Five years ago he married The New Yorker...
...printed Father Wiesel's letter without comment. Also it printed letters from Father O'Malley, S. J., dean of Loyola, and Father Theodore Daigler, S. J., president of Woodstock College. No other clergyman filed complaint. The weekly Baltimore Catholic Review printed a moderate objection. After four days quiet, Archbishop Curley returned from a trip out of town, heard what had gone on, reached for his telephone. An underling on the Sun's desk took the call. To all the Archbishop had to say, that unhappy deskman could only gulp and stammer. Later in the day Editor John W. Owens visited...
Senator Ashurst fancies himself a literary man. He is not over-generous with newspaper interviewers. If a reporter brings up an interesting subject for discussion, the Senator is likely to reserve comment on the topic for a paid article in the Saturday Evening Post. He keeps under lock & key a voluminous diary, the posthumous publication of which he expects to immortalize him as the great recorder of the Washington scene...