Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dawes statement, a characteristic one, also registered acutely upon several other consciousnesses. Many a U. S. economist had ministered to the wilting financial systems of other nations before Budgetarian Dawes went to Santo Domingo...
...contain himself until he reached the next-nearest Hearst city, Chicago. Instead, he arranged to be met in Kansas City by a representative of that city's daily Star, a most independent un-Hearstlike newspaper. Into the Star man's hands Mr. Hearst delivered a 3,000 word statement entitled: "We Need Laws We can Respect." He requested the Star man explicitly to see that the Star should publish the statement in full...
Faithfully, the Star man transmitted to his chief the Hearst request. Shrewdly, the Star chief smelled a large, shadowy, Hearstlike rat. He saw to it that the Star did not print the Hearst statement as Mr. Hearst had planned. It required a long-distance call from Mr. Hearst's secretary in Chicago before the Star printed the Hearst statement at all. Then the Star chopped the thing up and printed about one-third of it on page 17, next to a comic strip...
That was enough, however, for Hearst purposes. Last week the full statement was spread across the U. S. in the Hearst papers and in paid advertisements in other papers under the byline: "William Randolph Hearst in the Kansas City Star...
...They forget that once an incorrect story gets in print, subsequent denials will never catch up with the lie. They also fail to remember that news cannot be suppressed, that it is impossible to silence all the sources of information. Therefore, if an accurate and official statement is not made of all current events with news value, then it follows that a different kind of story will reach the papers with corresponding damage to the institution concerned...