Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were cheers in the local Coliseum when "Alfalfa Bill" Murray rose to introduce the Nominee as a composite of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. James A. Garfield and Calvin Coolidge "plus a pleasant personality." Returning the compliment, Nominee Landon listed the onetime Governor first among famed anti-New Deal Democrats who had espoused his cause, called on "real Democrats" throughout the land to rally...
During the present campaign it has been the fate of shallow minds to confuse the dramatic, band-stand plays of Roosevelt for political liberalism. The Yale News falls squarely into this trap. It pays the New Deal the compliment of having done something for the worker. If the N.R.A., with its haphazard and unalterable codes drawn up by the Chamber of Commerce at will, could do anything for labor, that benefits has yet to appear. If the breakup of the united labor front in this country into a Green and a Lewis camp, which was openly fostered by the President...
Your announcement in TIME, Oct. 12, p. 89 (". . . The half hour weekly radio period will best compliment and parallel TIME'S news reporting.") sounds ominous...
Whatever may be the "March of Time's" "best compliment" to TIME'S newsreporting (TIME, Oct. 12, p. 89), let the adwriter's face be red as he "goes foot" for once...
...Columnist Hugh Johnson when his running mate, freckle-faced Westbrook Fegler. who has been at columning some eleven years, leaned out of his crow's nest across the World-Telegram's ''folio page" to give the newcomer a friendly hail, pay him a well-deserved compliment...