Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Former R.A.F. Warrant Officer Edward Blacksell, McIndoe's closest associate in running the Guinea Pig Club, says that TIME'S statement is "only wrong in a technical sort of way. Although they didn't actually call Mac 'God,' many of them thought of him as such, or certainly as the next best thing...
...other main project, undertaken at the request of Dean Bender is a statement of "student rights." Rights and responsibilities of students and organizations will be discussed, as well as several specific conditions suggested by the Dean. Among these are what action taken if an undergraduate magazine should publish articles excessively and offensively obscene...
Said the President's statement: "I told him [Marshall] of my continuing great desire to see peace firmly established in the world . . . Secretary Marshall described to me the situation which we face in Paris ... I decided not to take this step...
They went into conference, to emerge with two formal statements for the press. The President had called him home, the Marshall statement said, to talk things over. The President was chiefly concerned about "the intransigent attitude of the Soviet government during the debate on the atomic problem." They had discussed the Vinson matter. "The President decided it would not be advisable to take this action. The matter was then dropped." The Secretary had heard talk of a split between the President and himself. "There is no foundation for this," he said...
After four years of research and writing, Freeman can make this measured judgment: "The patriot emerged slowly. Two generations ago this statement would have been considered defamation. The integrity of the United States was assumed, for some reason, to presuppose the flawlessness of Washington's character and vice versa . . . More Americans will be relieved than will be shocked to know that Washington sometimes was violent, emotional, resentful...