Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent a tall, sturdily built Russian in the uniform of a major in the MVD (secret police) to question the fugitives. Pirogov led off with the statement that he wasn't going back to Russia until there was a change in the regime. When the major kept referring to a "forced landing," Pirogov corrected him sharply: "There was no forced landing about it. I landed on U.S. territory because I intended to. This was an escape, not a forced landing...
...Communist leaders of France's coal strike, which in less than a month had cost the nation 3,000,000 tons of coal, last week tipped their hand. From Communist headquarters came a statement: "The miners' struggle is not only to secure legitimate wage adjustments, but also a struggle for the defense of national independence . . . threatened by American imperialists striving to drag our country into...
Associate Professor John Ciardi was the only speaker not drawn from the Law School faculty, which could not produce a Wallace supporter. He expressed doubt whether he "had been summoned as a sacrificial lamb or as a prophet," but said he would assume the latter. His statement of the Progressive theory was based on the grounds that "society is essentially a process of getting something for nothing...
...statement released yesterday through the office of the Counsellor for Veterans, Vice-President Reynolds stated that "the managing agents for the University's veterans housing projects have made plans to give priority in housing units to those married students now living at Jarvis who have announced their expectation of staying with the University after June...
Finally, the statement that "the great majority of married couples" in Massachusetts practice birth control invites two queries: IF they do, why bother trying to repeal this statute? IF they do, doesn't the failure of the last referendum prove that they do so against their consciences? Aloys A. Michel '50 Andrew F. Burghardt '49 Paul Flanagan '51 Carlos von Bertrab '51 Carl B. Schmitt...