Word: wonderfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report in this morning's Crimson of yesterday's session of the State House hearing does not come up to your usual standard of accuracy. Part of the account was so far removed from what happened that I really wonder if a Crimson reporter was present at the hearing. For example, with regard to Professor McLaughlin's speech, your story declared: "McLaughlin claimed that the only purpose of the bill was to 'bulldoze' 'ignorant professors...
...himself confronted with what seem from his descriptions insuperable odds. He faces clever men, with the best lawyers money can get behind them; the Senate can only hire their lawyers at $300 a month, and their clever men don't, for some strange reason, go in for investigations. No wonder resort must sometimes be made to bludgeoning and badgering. Otherwise in a great many cases, the defendants go through an investigation, not only with reputations enhanced, and Senators looking silly, but also they submit to not the slightest inconvenience or unhappiness. If you lack a rapier, a club or stick...
...deny that the management of Rockefeller Center does not dominate the union, that it did not help to form it, that it does not contribute, if not financial, which is most likely, at least some sort of "other" support to it? No wonder, with such arrant lawbreakers in charge, that the elevator boys in the Center did not rise in their might and shake their shackles...
Over the radio last week Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who was distinctly New Dealish two years ago, openly broke with Franklin Roosevelt, saying: "As a radio speaker he is a wonder. As a business executive he is a flop...
...these notes, which are now collected in "Preface to the Past", he talks amiably of authorship and his reputation for pornography, of the regrettable failure of his books to make money for their publishers and the curious willingness of the House of McBride to continue publishing them. With some wonder he remarks that his books have rarely failed to evoke passionately unfavorable criticism, unadulterated by the least rationality, from all the better-thought-of reviewers. Of these and other bookish matters he speaks with wit and charm...