Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like TIME because in nearly every issue there is some statement, backed by irrefutable authority, which jolts me from an outworn rut of thought...
...example of what I mean is the printing in your last issue of a statement about birth control by the doctor who attends the British Royal Family.* If he "can find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control," then I have indeed been misinformed, and I intend to seek out the facts. I had thought that even a knowledge of this subject was in the nature of a "taint," but as a loyal citizen of the British Empire I have confidence that the example of the Royal Family is ever uplifting, never the reverse...
...Dawes. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes called at the White House within a few hours of his return last week to Washington. Newsgatherers flocked. Pacing nervously, he dictated a statement in which he 1) "assumed" that President Coolidge was not a candidate; 2) declared he himself was not a candidate; 3) declared his candidate was Frank Orren Lowden...
...Secretary, hospitable, had already put his guest at ease by spiking the recent statement attacking Moukhtar Bey which was made by James Watson Gerard, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany (TIME...
Smoked out at last, Mr. George laid about him last week. Canny, he still concealed the one essential fact: how much money there is in his secret fund. On other points he went the limit in a bristling press statement...