Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having once erred by broadly criticizing most anything in an interview, Fuller's remarks in regard to Harvard were cautiously guarded. However, for the new movements the "Roosevelt for King Club" and the course in marriage, he held only contempt. "Stupid", was his only comment...
Chief Justice Hughes' letter itself presented incontrovertible facts which place the administration in a woefully weak position. Senator Wheeler's comment emphasising the "deplorable misinformation" of Attorney-General Cummings is the only possible reaction to Hughes' account of the efficiency of court procedure. The use by Cummings and the President of the false postulate that the inherent weakness of their case. Some of the the court was running behind on its docket shows bitterness of President Roosevelt's Victory Dinner declamation must be neutralized by the incontestable fact that the "Nine Old Men" have kept up with their work...
Secretary Hull, who had been studying some first-hand samples of the Nazi tirade, which he refused to release as too obscene for publication in the U. S. press, promptly replied that he had instructed U. S. Ambassador William E. Dodd to make "emphatic comment" to the German Government on its semi-official abuse. Milder than a "protest," diplomatic "comment" requires no reply by the offending Government...
Across the Atlantic in Washington, when Representative Edith Nourse Rogers up-rose in the House to demand fuller revenge for insulted U. S. womanhood than mere "emphatic comment," Minnesota's grizzled Harold Knutson, who voted against War in 1917, replied: "I wonder whether the gentlewoman from Massachusetts speaks from personal knowledge or from propaganda coming from London. ... I can re-call when people here received tales of horror. . . . Didn't we learn something then? Are we going to be worked into a similar frenzy?" Congress, however, was not to be denied the fun of counter-baiting the Brown...
Noted without comment last week by the New York Journal of Commerce was the fact that a third great group of prices in its commodity index had pushed above the average level prevailing in the boom years 1927-29. Building materials and iron and steel products have been in new high ground for some time. To these conspicuous markers on the highway to inflation were added non-ferrous metals (lead, zinc, copper, tin, etc.), which as a group have risen 46% since the commodity boom got underway last autumn...