Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I beg leave to call your attention to a statement in the July 8 issue of TIME, page 13, column 2 near the bottom of the page: "Japan once planned to annex Hawaii by intensive colonization." I challenge anyone to produce a bit of documentary evidence to prove this statement-or any evidence that would be accepted by the courts of any civilized nation This statement savors of international slander; it is bad etiquette and miserable ethics. To say the least, it is totally unworthy of a magazine that professes the accuracy and other qualities of TIME. EARL...
...That Republican Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho should oppose the flexible provisions of the proposed Tariff Bill occasioned no great surprise in Washington. That he should express his opposition by a formal statement from Democratic National Committee headquarters, as he did last week, was surprising indeed. With a gleeful rattle a Democratic mimeograph ground out this Borah opinion: "There is no better illustration of the growth of bureaucracy than the story of the flexible tariff. . . . We are now delegating the full taxing power to the Executive...
...tended to increase the heat in already superheated Washington: 1) "Practically 100% of the rum runners are American citizens who ply their trade in U. S. boats": 2) "Only 2% to 5% of the liquor in the U. S. comes from Canada." Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran answered statement No.1: "No one is in a position to know whether the boats . . . are Canadian-owned or American-owned because nearly all vessels which Canada has reported as clearing for the U. S. with liquor cargoes are not recorded in the U. S." Statement No. 2 was particularly offensive to Assistant...
Henderson: I never made any such statement...
Exceptional in its character, Commercial National has also been exceptional in its progress. The bank was formed with capital stock of $7,000,000 and surplus of $7,000,000. A late June statement showed deposits of $76,589,035.84, undivided profits of $886,351.04. At this rate the bank, at the end of its first year of business life, will have attracted more than $150,000,000 in deposits and earned more than $1,500,000. It has about $40,000,000 in cash on hand...