Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happens, however, that, under exclusionary rules of evidence, whether certain evidence be given to the jury at all depends on the existence or non-existence of some preliminary fact. It is generally said that this preliminary fact must be determined by a judge. This article shows when this last statement is true...
...topic of Mr. Simpson's piece is "The Interstate Commerce Commission and Railroad Consolidation." This is a statement of the rapidly developing law in respect to railroad mergers since the transportation act of 1920, which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission authority over such mergers...
...Democrats were not inclined to criticize Mr. Raskob because of the stock market, Republicans were. Last fortnight in the Senate, Democratic Leader Robinson of Arkansas attributed in part the recent market crash to a flow of unduly optimistic statements from Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Andrew William Mellon. Defending the Republicans, Senator Robinson of Indiana rose to blame Mr. Raskob for the frenzy of speculation. He called Mr. Raskob a "plunger," cited Mr. Raskob's published faith in stocks, his plans for a workers' investment trust, his null General Motors statement (TIME, Feb.11) as public inspirations to gambling, responsible...
...upon the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; 2) The tentative Anglo-U. S. naval understanding between himself and President Hoover is only a groundwork on which the Naval Pact proper will be built at the Five-Power Conference scheduled to meet in London next January; 3) In the Hoover-MacDonald statement of last month (from which the Prime Minister quoted copiously last week) the two Governments declared, "in a new and reinforced sense," that war between them is "unthinkable," and that mutual "distrusts and suspicions . . . must now cease to influence national policy." At these familiar words-the 1929 formula of Peace...
...there is a great degree of truth in Dr. Bell's statement as to the incompetency of the small college in getting adequate teachers. It it is not possible to uproot their physical plants and transfer them to the larger universities, it still remains possible to form a closer connection between the two types by exchanging professors and giving the larger institutions a guiding influence in the administration of the smaller colleges...