Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early in the week the following extraordinary statement appeared in L'lntransigeant, powerful popular daily...
More interesting was the statement in economist Rudolf Martin's financial compendium, just published in Berlin, that Wilhelm of Doorn is still the richest of all Germans, credited with $152,000,000 in capital holdings. This does not mean that he has much money to spend. Wilhelm Hohenzollern's wealth consists of: A million and a half acres of land (entailed) worth $120,000,000 Castles, palaces, gardens, worth 20,000,000 Furniture, jewels, works of art, worth 4,000,000 Cash settlement from the German government for confiscated property...
...Kellogg Treaty concludes with the seemingly harmless statement that it is signed by the rulers of the various nations "in the name of their respective peoples." Though Japan is a constitutional monarchy, yearly growing more democratic, nowhere are royal prerogatives more jealously guarded. According to the Japanese Constitution the Emperor, Son of Heaven, does not sign treaties "in the name of his people" for that would mean that it was the people who were making the treaty, the Emperor who was their agent. Japanese Prime Ministers sign "in the name of" the people. Japan's Emperor signs "for the good...
Propaganda. For many a month N. E. A. members have waited for their association's formal statement about propaganda in the schools. Chief alleged propagandizers: public utility corporations, which have been accused of bribing teachers, changing text books to make private ownership of such utilities seem desirable to students, future voters. Last November, the N. E. A. appointed a committee to investigate. Last week the committee's chairman, Philadelphia Superintendent of Schools Edwin Cornelius Broome. reported that "efforts are being made from a wide variety of sources to advertise commercial products, advance special interests, and to propagate particular...
...Washington had met an Editorial Council of the Religious Press. One of the questions discussed was: "What should be the attitude of the religious press toward the movies?" The Churchman took opportunity to editorialize as follows: "[Church journals] were willing, like other groups in America, to accept the statement of the motion picture industry that Will Hays had been employed to 'clean up the movies.' The editors are under not the slightest illusion that Mr. Hays has done so ... Mr. Hays ... is a skillful writer of letters to editors and leaders of religious groups. Anyone who has heard him speak...