Word: statement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to your issue of July 17, p. 13, I notice the following statement of Rear Admiral Byrd, "We discovered a seam of coal down there that we think is sufficient to supply the United States for 100 years or more. This seam of coal is ... exposed along the slope of a high mountain range so that it is not necessary...
...mining engineer this statement seems to offer obscurities. A rough calculation indicates that this amount of coal would be roughly 45 billion tons or a seam 100 feet wide, 1,000 feet deep and 5 miles long. I did not realize that Admiral Byrd had become such a prospector...
Last Sunday the half-hour Round Table discussion was opened and closed with an apology by the University's vice president Frederic Campbell Woodward (a Hoover aide with the U. S. Food Administration in 1917): "That statement should never have been made. We have ample assurance that it is absolutely untrue. We not only wish to state our regret but our full confidence that Mr. Hoover's public life stands out for high standards of probity, political honesty and abhorrence of political corruption...
This disclaimer may have satisfied Mr. Hoover, but it irked Columnist Pearson considerably to be thus roundly denied. Next day his attorney, Ernest Cuneo, wired Vice President Woodward, curtly labeling the denial "a statement . . . viciously attacking the professional integrity of my client," and winding up: "Unless proper apologies are made to Mr. Pearson, immediate legal proceedings will be instituted...
...bowing out, because I have not bowed in. Senator Taft is a very capable man, and I think he would make a good President." This statement-of-the-week was made by Ohio's Governor John William Bricker, who announced at Columbus that he will not campaign to be Ohio's favorite Republican son next year. Senator Taft: "I appreciate his kind words." In last week's Gallup poll on candidates preferred ahead of Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Taft's name did not appear among the first eleven Republicans. Ahead of him were Dewey, Vandenberg, LaGuardia, Borah...