Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done, the four of them filed a 48,000-word report to O'Neil in New York, who thereupon sat down to write his story. When he had finished it, Researcher Anne Lopatin took over the job of verifying a multitude of facts such as the statement that "Los Angeles lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester"-a statistic which our Boston Bureau proved to its personal astonishment and chagrin...
...safe 50-40, Taft's injunction-seizure amendment won. A.F.L.'s old William Green sent Scott Lucas an angry letter telling him to fight no longer to make "the Taft bill more palatable" since it was already "absolutely unacceptable." This, said Taft, was "probably the most presumptuous statement that any individual has ever made to the Senate...
...other stumps were some of those almost forgotten records which FBI agents had turned up. Hiss had said firmly that the last time he saw Chambers was in "May or June of 1936." Against that statement were the Chamberses' recollections and two facts established some time ago but now assuming vital proportions...
...world; therefore, it required far-reaching policy decisions by the U.S. Last February Secretary of State Dean Acheson postponed these decisions by saying that he would "wait until the dust settles." Last week China's Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung settled the dust; he made an air-clearing statement that disclosed the U.S. already standing at a crossroads which the State Department had hoped it would not reach until the weather got cooler, say in October...
...statement was just about all the world needed to know about the past, present and future attitudes of the Chinese Communist Party. It wiped out 15 years of "liberal" cant about the tame Chinese Communists. Probably it would effectively silence the British and U.S. Shanghai businessmen who were clamoring to their governments to establish diplomatic relations with the Reds. Mr. Acheson had his answer...