Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...purpose of correction but for your own information, I am offering the following comment on your very friendly account of myself in your issue of Sept...
...that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought to be the last man in the State of New York to do"). But the President's added comment was, although oblique, much stronger...
Starchiest comment on Mr. Chamberlain's historic role was at hand in a new little book called Guilty Men, an on-the-record, non-editorialized indictment of Chamberlain and 14 of his pre-and post-Munich peers (TIME, Sept. 30). Author was "Cato," identified by wiseacres as the Evening Standard's brilliant newsman Michael Foote...
Next day a storm broke around President Butler's old white head. Mildest comment was by Columbia's Professor-emeritus John Dewey, who observed that Dr. Butler's statement was "identical, as far as it goes, with totalitarianism," concluded that Dr. Butler could not have meant what he said. Less gentle were H. G. Wells, the Columbia Spectator, the Teachers Union, a host of other commentators. Said the Rev. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of Manhattan's Community Church: "He has taken Columbia into the European war before the Government has gone in." The New York Herald...
...English took the start of the was much easier than we did," was the comment yesterday of Ray S. Cline, '39 recently appointed proctor in Weld Hall who studied at Balliol College, Oxford last year...