Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting the speech, Roscoe Drummond, the Christian Science Monitor's veteran Washington bureau chief, wrote: "I put it as a careful statement of fact that I have never heard any political personage receive any longer, more sustained or more spontaneous applause than came from that group of overwhelmingly Republican newspaper editors. They liked what Mr. Truman had to say and they liked the way he said it. They felt an integrity, a humility, a morality of purpose . . . which stirred their esteem, their regard and their good will...
Voznesensky's book was more than mere fear mongering. It was also a statistical statement of the Soviet war potential. From it, after months of painstaking analysis, the U.S. House Select Committee on Foreign Aid (Herter Committee) last week drew some important conclusions. The highlights...
Rector Melish stoutly defended his son for "doing the work which the rector himself would have done, had he been 20 years younger." He added: "A free pulpit that utters things that everyone accepts is an absurdity." Father & son issued a joint statement pointing out that an Episcopal minister "is not the employee of the vestry or of a board of trustees. Nor does he speak for the people of his parish in the sense that he must conform to the sentiments of the majority ... To say that he may speak his mind fully in the pulpit, but to deny...
...trustees quietly sent the Enquirer's operating statement to "a small, selected group of well-qualified people," who were invited to submit sealed bids. Among the prospective bidders: Hulbert Taft, cousin of Senator Bob Taft and operator of the 108-year-old Cincinnati Times-Star; Chain Publisher Frank Gannett; the Ridder brothers of Manhattan and Minnesota; and portly Publisher Silliman Evans of the Nashville Tennessean. Enquirer Publisher Roger Ferger, 54, who joined the staff as advertising manager in 1920, may enter a bid himself, backed by local capital. And Newspaper Broker Smith Davis had others on the string...
With the second part, at least, of this famous statement by Henry Adams, Columbia's Professor Dumas Malone agrees. In this first installment of a four-volume work on Jefferson and his time, Malone has drawn a careful portrait of the tall, sandy-haired young Virginian who drafted the Declaration of Independence and struggled with dignity through two harassing years as Virginia's war governor. Malone's touches are precise and measured rather than fine; neither lights nor shadows are handled warmly, and his picture remains academic. But he does supply a sound and scholarly account...