Word: nones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were no recorded conversations of other luminaries, but none seemed anxious to talk. Said a secretary for Supreme Court Justice S. Samuel DiFalco: "Quote -no comment-unquote." Said Special Sessions Judge Joseph Loscalzo: "No comment, comma, no comment." Blandest of all was Borough President Rogers. He had developed a real enthusiasm for the Salvation Army. He added: "I am not interested in or have any comment to make on the personalities involved...
...T.W.A. he would fight Pan Am's purchase of American Overseas. He scoffed at Smith's explanation that American was selling American Overseas because "the volume of business does not justify the continuation of three competing U.S. carriers on the North Atlantic route." Damon pointed out that none of the three lines lost money on the route last year despite travel restrictions. "Barring an atomic war," said he, "we ought to be able to support more than three carriers as times get more normal...
...None of the geological literature quoted by Shimkin is later than 1944. What the Russians may have found by frantic searching since that time, Shimkin does not guess. But he believes that the uranium deposits found before the war in the Fergana Valley alone "appear to provide a possible basis for the development of atomic power in that region...
Critical Comparisons. None of the eminent writers on the staff of the Freeman (e.g., Van Wyck Brooks and Suzanne La Follette) knew where he lived. It was an office joke that the only way to communicate with him was by leaving a letter under a certain stone in Central Park. He was an expert billiard player, a master of Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and a seasoned music critic. He was in the U.S. foreign service, serving under Ambassador Brand Whitlock in occupied Belgium in World War I. Since he had also been an Episcopal clergyman, his diary is studded with...
Most of the students at Yenching have also left the city. None are known to have taken part in the Communist movement, but it is believed that a sizeable minority may have been Communist sympathizers...