Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barrier at the Pyrenees. A little later Pfeifer issued a more diplomatic, but no less straightforward, formal statement: "I've been asked, what is the U.S. going to do about Spain? I think the order of the question is wrong. I don't mean to be harsh when I say Spain is a secondary problem to the U.S. The U.S., however, is a primary problem to Spain. The real question is this: 'What is Spain going to do about the United States?' Only the Spaniards themselves can answer that...
While refusing as yet to identify his new witness, Wallach emphasized his admiration for the person's "intellectual courage," in considering a challenge of Father Feeney, whom Wallach called, in a prepared statement, "a man of great, if misdirected, ability, whom many once rightly considered worthy of attention and respect...
...State Department employee, took the stand, an air of excitement and tension finally came to the courtroom. It was a big moment for Claude Cross, the shrewd, quiet Boston lawyer who had succeeded posturing, lionlike Lloyd Paul Stryker as defense counsel for Hiss. Cross had contended in his opening statement that Wadleigh, and not Alger Hiss, had stolen the famed Pumpkin Papers...
...Monday to begin examining the needs and details for construction of the dormitory, Jordan added. Committee members include Jordan, chairman ex-officio, Mrs. Henry A. Murray, Miss Mary Small, Dean of Residence, and Richard W. Thorpe, business manager of the College. This committee will meet regularly and hand a statement of needs to architects by the end of the year...
Jones introduction deals mainly with recent attempts in this country (rather than in Germany or in Russia) of a majority to retain the unpopular utterances of a minority. The anthologist, in a well reasoned statement, rejects "arbitrary classifications of citizenship" according to membership in parties or groups Communist, Republican, atheist, or what-have-you. One must judge "men rather than platforms," Jones says, and "Ideas considered pragmatically (rather than) ideologies...