Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witnesses who appeared before the Ways & Means Committee last week were mostly pleased but unsatisfied. They argued that the revisions did not go far enough, that the principle of the profits tax as well as the tax itself should be safely buried forever. Typical was one witness's remark: "Nothing short of repeal, we think, will give business the confidence it needs...
...Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Willkie on the subject ''How Can Govern-ment and Business Work Together?" (see p. 32). On Jackson Day itself, Robert Houghwout Jackson modestly played second fiddle to Governor Lehman at the New York dinner, but before the dinner he made the one remark of the fiesta which may have tangible consequences. Asked whether he would run for Governor of New York next autumn, Mr. Jackson beamed: "If the Democratic Party wants me to be its candidate. I will...
Charles A. Rheinstorm, vice president of American, answered: "It is definitely not true that we have a higher peak on our airway than United has on theirs.'' Mr. Patterson's remark about sunshine hurt Mr. Rheinstorm. "People usually concede that winter weather in the south is better than winter weather in the north, and the only people who are not willing to concede that are the United people...
Angna Enters' tourist observations are sometimes so accurate as to be childlike, as when she remarks that all Spaniards spit. Far from childlike, however, are the rich and strange characters she has imagined, costumed and made live in pantomime: a sultry, majestic Spanish girl of the 16th Century dancing the slow Pavana; a tragically refined pre-War young woman at a party in Vienna Provincial; and Queen of Heaven, for which Miss Enters recently got into the bad books of the Roman Catholic bishop of Montana. having quoted, as a program note, Henry Adams' remark that...
...long ago an interviewer spoke of Snow White as a cartoon, and reported that Mr. Disney retorted: "It's no more a cartoon than a painting by Whistler is a cartoon." The remark, if made, sounds pompous, out of character. The Rembrandt conception fits better-the conception of an artist, single of purpose, utterly unselfconscious, superlatively good at and satisfied in his work, a thoroughgoing professional, just gagging it up and letting the professors tell him what he's done...