Word: statement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...says further that the individual opinions held by members of the CRIMSON Board will never prevent one holding contrary views from presenting his case to the College. We wish to test that statement. In order to do so we hereby assert that the personal opinions of one particular member of the CRIMSON Board were the obvious cause for the suppression of each of three communications from graduates...
...world have entered the hearts and minds of all men. It is a token that the world is aroused to the necessity of vast and concerted action. Perhaps it is also an indication of the universal yearning for strong leadership. In the wreck of the reputations of generals and statement, in the poverty of great and commanding names, the common people seek a supernatural leader. To their eyes the skies are not empty. Let us hope that there is something prophetic in their visions. In their very aspiration there is at least encouragement. --Boston Transcript...
...statement sent out to the presidents of 50 National Patriotic Organizations, to Cabinet members and other Government officials and to college presidents, says: "At the beginning of our second year in the great war, it is fitting that we have a National consecration to the task remaining before us. Because of numerous workless days during the past winter, it is not advisable that the occasion should be made a holiday, be in every factory, store, mine, school and on every farm there should be a brief period during the day when everyone who is loyal to the flag should stand...
That Great Britain and France have given their sanction to this step is by this time certain. The attitude of the United States alone remains doubtful. No official statement has yet been issued by the State Department, but it is scarcely too much to say that our Government, if it does not actively oppose the measure, will at least refuse its assent. And this for very good reasons...
This is not an embargo. Restrictions are to be imposed only when essential to accomplish "definite and necessary objects." As the War Trade Board's explanatory statement says, this measure is "forced upon us by the critical tonnage situation and the necessity of availing ourselves of every possible means of maintaining our armies in France...