Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klein is the author. As Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce he served under Herbert Hoover when the latter was Secretary of Commerce and his former chief has contributed a forword and many quotations to the book. It can be taken as the official statement of the significance of America's new position...
...Lorimer, there to dine with President Hoover, then to spend the night in a White House guest chamber. Over the dinner table, and later, up in the second story White House den, President and Editor talked. What they talked about, no one knows. From the Executive Offices came no statement. To newsgatherers Editor Lorimer said nothing, except that his was a "social, personal visit." But the newsgatherers, other editors, journalists were set to thinking. During the presidential campaign, they remembered, The Saturday Evening Post said many a kind word about Nominee Hoover, in articles, in editorials. So now, asked observers...
...statement: "I am happy to come here ... to pay a tribute of admiration to my good friend . . . and through him to the great race which is proud and fortunate to count him among their...
...daughter of the late wealthy Jay Gould, shot himself on purpose in his mother's Paris home. The press did not get wind of the story until last week. When the press came, the Duchess was ready with a frank, detailed and-most important of all-entirely literate statement; one that prevented garbling by scandal-monging journals. The statement said: "The Duke and Duchess de Talleyrand regret keenly to announce the critical illness of their son, Howard. . . . He shot himself because we refused him permission to marry until he was 21. ... The shooting took place in our home...
...incident" which had allegedly resulted in the Post's editorial attack upon the Ambassador (TIME, May 13, 27). Last week, the hard-hitting Record kept its readers' attention in custody by printing a front-page "correction in fairness to the Washington Post and Publisher McLean." In this statement, Publisher Julius David Stern of the Record caused his newspaper to say that, upon investigation, the Record "finds that the report of the social incident was erroneous, and furthermore that there was no ground for attributing the motive of the editorial to anything other than the editorial policy...