Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Routine procedure in the case of Congressional resolutions concerning specific departments is to forward them promptly to the department concerned for comment before they are reported out of committee. Only relevant comment on the Scott Resolution the State Department could make would be to name Italy, Germany and Japan as treaty breakers-which cautious Secretary Cordell Hull, who was last week golfing at Pinehurst, N. C., has thus far been careful not to do. Byron Scott, who has been trying to get the Neutrality Act repealed, at least as it affects Spain, and who had attended a dinner party...
...Roosevelt has so far himself said nothing whatever about this year's Florida primaries. But when James Roosevelt stopped off in Palm Beach last winter, he glibly announced: "It is our sincere hope that he [Claude Pepper] will be returned to the Senate." Mark Wilcox's acid comment: "The State of Florida is waiting with bated breath to see what stand Sistie and Buzzie [Dall] will take...
While a Barcelona audience was witnessing The Spanish Earth, cinema of the war with comment by U. S. Novelist-Reporter Ernest Hemingway, Barcelona was visited by an air raid. The stocky, mustached novelist, spotted in the audience, was applauded for five minutes by the ecstatic Catalans after the raid was over...
...from Contracts and Common Law Actions, he has stood well in studies, has courted popularity but not publicity. Among intimates he calls his father "the old man." Last week he completed arrangements for two broadcasts-one this week, when, as an ex-Harvard oarsman, he will help Ted Husing comment on the Columbia-Navy crew race on New York's Harlem River from a bus top; the other next week as guest of Vitalis ("Just think of the word vital and add i-s") hair preparation, when he will tell how it feels to be a President...
This jaunty comment made by Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee was his summing up of the Illinois State primaries, which last week were the first in the huge tide of State elections that will send 435 Representatives and 34 Senators to Washington this autumn...