Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arvin avoids doing what many biographers have done to their subjects. He does not go too far in evaluating the contemporary comment and criticism voiced by the socialists of Whitman's period in an attempt to illuminate the attitudes of Whitman himself. He does not make of Whitman an intellectually unified individual at the expense of verity, he does not even make him an intellectual in the restricted sense of the term. For once a biographer has finished his work without creating a god or devil out of the subject. Whitman was neither a radical nor a reactionary...
...first comment on the election which swept many New deal stalwarts into the discard and raised the Republican party to a place of power in both the House and Senate. Mr. Roosevelt said at his press conference, however, that he sees no threat to a continuation of liberal government nor does he envisage a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats arising to circumvent...
...Problem of the Meaning of Words," a subject which aroused a storm of comment when it was popularized by Stuart Chase last year, will be the topic of a free, public lecture by Dr. Kurt Goldstein in Emerson Hall at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon...
That worried comment-referring, ironically enough, to the steel industry, which scarcely three months ago headed the Anti-Monopoly Committee's list of suspects-was made last fortnight by Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Last week Philip Murray had reason to be reassured, for a two-month state of undeclared war in the industry was ended, temporarily at least, by an undeclared truce...
Last week prices suddenly returned to the official level. As usual, no steel company would comment, but it was clear: 1) that the automobile companies had completed most of their fall buying; 2) that by finally acknowledging and meeting the surreptitious price cuts, Big Steel had convinced its angry competitors that, even if it is not a monopoly, it is still too big for them to trade punches with...