Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apted, superintendent of the yard and buildings at Harvard, who signed the notices discharging the women, and other officials at Harvard say that it was the university's intention to replace the women with men anyway and to work the women into other jobs. One can only remark that it was most unfortunate that the Minimum Wage Commission's insistence should have been the factor crystalizing that intention.--Gardner Jackson in The Nation...
...correct the remark of Interstate Commerce Commissioner McManamy, quoted on p. 12 of TIME...
President Hoover in sending the Wickersham report to Congress with a special message of his own echoed the Commission's thoughts, generalized about Crime, used the word "Prohibition" twice and made this remark...
...when the War was over. Poincare has characterized this liquidation as follows: 'Of the $2,933,000,000 that France spent in America on the War, $1,840,000,000 went into illegitimate profits.' The man responsible for this was Tardieu. And in conclusion we must also remark that it was he and not Klotz who said to the Chamber of Deputies on September 3rd, 1919, when asked who would make good the losses incurred in buying American goods, 'Germany will...
...ready to do according to an official statement earlier in the week by First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. The MacDonald memorandum threw cold water on the Tardieu proposal for a Mediterranean pact, and sidestepped the French project for a stronger League of Nations with the remark that the Kellogg Pact and the League Covenant may be considered "complementary." Ships...