Word: comments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift of $500 to Mrs. Samuel Gompers, 57, disinherited widow of the late, great A. F. of L. leader. Said William Green: "No comment. We have been dealing with that problem for several years." Gangling (6 ft. 7 in.) Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood, veteran of World War I, admitted that he turns over his weekly royalties (about $2,200) from "There Shall Be No Night" for civilian relief in Europe, has given more than $15,000 to war relief since September...
...violinist who is probably the first to jive on wax with a $15,000 Stradivarius (borrowed). Known around NBC as "Toscanini's hep cats," the New Friends do not know how "The Old Man" likes their recordings, which were sent to him last Christmas. Toscanini made no comment, but his cats suspect that he does not mind...
Relations between Boston and Nazi Germany have taken a turn for the worse. With characteristic suddenness, the Teutons have broken off diplomatic relations with the Traveler, charging the paper with "uncivilized" editorial comment on the Fuehrer. This time the object of their fury, is an appeal to the American people to devise the "most hellish instruments of defense" against "this creature Hitler," and "ex-guttersnipe," a "mediocre little man," a "fanatical, sub-standard person," a "dirty gutter fighter," and "infamous beast." In Nazi eyes, it is uncivilized to "defend the eternal verities," to "meet the diabolical challenge of "Hitler...
...Almost overnight after the invasion of Belgium and Holland, isolationist and pacifist letters practically disappeared from TIME'S incoming mail. The following letters are a cross section of recent comment about the U. S. and the war. It shows the emergence of feelings and beliefs that have evidently been long latent and inarticulate, the sharpest apparent change in reader-opinion in TIME'S experience...
While Muralist Poor and his daughter clambered up scaffolds and laid on paint with a will, students, townspeople and teachers crowded the spacious hall to watch and comment (see cut). By last week, with Painter Poor halfway through his revelation (a huge, 15-ft. figure of Abraham Lincoln surrounded by scenes and symbols of agriculture and industry), some 15,000 visitors had come to have a look, and State collegians were beginning to think that watching a muralist was more fun than watching a mural...