Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I am forced to rise in protest because or a statement in TIME (June 24), Page 46 " . . [Mrs. Willebrandt] was a passenger on the first transcontinental rail-air-rail service. . . . Universal. . . ." Our company, the S. A. F. E. Airlines, began transcontinental air-rail service the same day Universal Air Lines began their cross-U. S. operations. Passengers leaving New York on June 14 by train and Los Angeles by plane, boarded our ships the morning of June 15 at St. Louis and Sweetwater, Tex., respectively, and completed their transcontinental journeys the following day. . . . This ends the protest. The letter...
Sirs: Your comment on Congress with reference to passage through the House of Representatives of the census-apportionment bill (June 17) contained the statement: "The Tinkham amendment was probably as illegal as the Hoch." I am astonished to find such a palpable misstatement in your impartial and usually well-informed and ably edited columns. Whatever else my amendment might be and whatever else might be said about it-and plenty has been said-surely there is no basis for characterizing it as illegal. In fact, without my amendment the apportionment bill is not constitutional. Section 1 of the 14th amendment...
Important in the week's developments on international naval reductions was a statement of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald...
Still badgered about his wife's White House visit, he made another public statement...
President Fortes Gil's statement, endorsed by the Vatican, established three points as a basis for a permanent agreement...