Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second place, the Council was so busy thrashing out its won position, that some of Dean Bender's statements which should have been challenged, slipped by unnoticed. And because of the confusion, those Councilmen who had specialized information were unable to put the Dean under vigorous questioning. For one thing, they failed to challenge Bender's statement that the University could not afford to spend &5,000 for a food investigation. They might have pointed out--but they didn't-- that Harvard was able to lay out &75,000 to move Dana Palmer House across Quincy Street board by board...
Meanwhile, Fisher further expanded and clarified his position. He retracted his statement that he was once a member of the HYRC Planningy Committee...
Beforehand, I thought Brahms' First Symphony would be an anticlimax, but I had forgotten. It only seemed rather nostalgic after the Honegger--a statement of the enviable confidence of the nineteenth century. Brahms and Koussevitzky are very congenial. Under his direction, the music achieves a great string of rich climaxes which march along with excitement, but without remembrance...
...Bingham supposedly said that the League For Reaction was formed as a test-balloon to see how much bitterness there was over the results of the Presidential election. Bingham refused to say whether or not there has been such a 'phone call or whether he had made such a statement...
Charles K. McWhorter 3L, president of the HYRC, said last night that he had no comment on Fisher's statement...