Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of that clamor last week, Chambers resigned as a senior editor of TIME. "When TIME hired me in 1939," he wrote in his statement, "its editors knew that I was an ex-Communist; they did not know that espionage was involved . . . After nine years of work done in good conscience, I have been called upon to expose the darkest and most dangerous side of Communism-espionage. This can be done only if a man who knows the facts will stand up and tell them without regard to the cost or consequences to himself. I cannot share this indispensable ordeal...
...been accused by Chambers as having given him papers from Government offices. One of them was William Ward Pigman, former employee of the Bureau of Standards, now a chemist with the Institute of Paper Chemistry at Appleton, Wis. He was questioned only by the grand jury; in a public statement he denied the charge...
...recorded a smashing defiance of Communism (TIME, Dec. 13). Colonel Frank Howley, the hard-bitten commander of the city's U.S. sector, welcomed West Berliners to "a place in the free world of men and women"-but warned them that further sacrifices were in store. In a formal statement from Washington, the State Department said: "The Berlin population has . . . demonstrated a type of civic courage which has won for it the admiration of the democratic peoples of the world...
Young Hutton had annoyed the prison's commander, General Eiichi Kino-shita, by refusing to sign a statement that he had been humanely treated. The general turned him over to one Sergeant Bunzo Yoshida. Sometimes Yoshida's lessons would be taught with water, sometimes with electric shock, sometimes with just the butt of a rifle or the heel of a boot. Then one day Yoshida trussed his naked prisoner up with his head between his legs and his arms strapped behind him, and left him alone. Five days later his fellow prisoners found Hutton stark crazy. Next...
...statement printed in the official bulletin put the jury's case: "Thousands of people in the U.S. are painting. Only a few of them are artists . . . The overbalance of the mediocre ... is becoming so alarming and is so detrimental to art and artists in their relation to the public, that the jury feels its duty is to throw its weight on the side of honesty and knowledge...