Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumpled Columnist Heywood Broun, 50, who is always at odds with his editors, reported in his syndicated daily comment It Seems To Me that he had had a conversation with Nudancer Sally Rand. She confronted him with: "I always say it is an evil thing for anybody to speak ill of his employer. Don't you agree with me, Mr. Broun?" Said he: "This took me somewhat by surprise, for it is a notion to which I have given little thought one way or another. And since my mind was not made up, I gave an evasive answer...
With outrage he rejected Liberal Leader Sinclair's suggestion that had Parliament been in session earlier, Czecho-Slovakia might have been saved. "I'm not going to comment on that suggestion. I'm just going to leave it in its full beauty...
President Roosevelt had no comment. But the House Rules committee acted swiftly, reported on equal terms four wage-hour bills: Barden's, Mrs. Norton's, another Norton bill containing only non-controversial amendments, and one by Georgia's Ramspeck without exemptions for farm workers...
...having political significance." At first it was suggested that the U.S. might be ready to conclude a new treaty based on Japan's "new order in East Asia." Later, it was magnanimously said that the U.S. would not, after all, have to recognize the "new order." Characteristic newspaper comment came from Tokyo's Nichi Nichi: "It defies comprehension...
Currently exciting comment in London is a provocative, 263-page book that analyzes the tangled family, social, economic and political relationships of Government supporters in the House of Commons. Called Tory M.P., believed the work of several contributors who write under the common pseudonym of "Simon Haxey, " it is an unobtrusive piece of political dynamite, abundantly proves its main point-that people like Lord Balniel are not exceptional among Conservative* members...