Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to call your attention to a misquotation in the Religion section of your issue of Feb. 2. The writer for that section has placed an extra "not" in his quotation of Cardinal Griffin's statement concerning the effect of contraceptive devices on the validity of marriage. This mistake changes the entire meaning. . . . One would expect a magazine like TIME with its great facilities and circulation to be more careful in its proofreading-or hire a more competent Religion Editor...
Even the British were forced to retract the statement that the refugees of the Pan York and Pan Crescent were predominantly communist. The British had something of a case here, it had seemed at first, because many of these refugees spoke Russian as well as Yiddish. When pressed for proof of the original assertion, however, the commander of the refugees' camp at Cyprus flatly denied that these refugees, who were screened at Cyprus, were communists...
Senator Vandenberg himself had nothing to say. It was impossible, however, not to attach a certain significance to his silence. Eleven months ago he had issued a pointed, eloquent statement that he would not "connive" to get the presidency. But as Sigler & Co. began trumpeting last week, he uttered no word of rebuke...
After much haggling, Lord Addison read a new statement of Labor's policy. He agreed to the conference the Tories wanted, dodged the question of clipping the peers' powers. The Addison formula: "The discussion of the powers of the [Lords] should be limited to ensuring reasonable time for the due performance of their functions. . . ." This was magnificent bureaucratic jabberwocky, but everybody agreed that it was a compromise : the House of Lords was going to be reformed, and Labor would let the Tories have a say in it. Said,the Marquess of Salisbury: change would now come...
...explained that by next Wednesday the Executive Committee will have drafted the movement's explicit final statement of principles and would announce this together with sponsors and plan-of-action...