Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alumni body is owed an explanation of the factors which require the limiting of Harvard's war memorial to a gesture," the Alumni Committee, which has been pushing for a utilitarian memorial since January, declared in a formal statement...
Released by the Committee's executive group, the statement said the Committee would request the Harvard Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs to ask their members whether they want a plaque or a student activities center as a memorial to the University's World War II dead...
...Harry Truman's expected blast at Communism this week, the Democrats dug deep, bought national radio coverage. *John Taber shot back: "Mr. Truman knows that I never made any such statement. What I said was this: 'The minute anyone demands a business administration and elimination of the leeches in the Government payroll, they squeal like a stuck pig.' " *A local delicacy which can be shot only between 4 p.m. and sunset on three days a year...
Reporters dubbed him "the poor man's candidate." He addressed 400 A.F.L. unionists in Bridgeport, Conn., the annual convention of the United Hebrew Trades in Atlantic City, a Liberal Party meeting in New York. In Worcester, Mass, he lit into Dewey's statement on atomic energy: "Someone should point out to the governor of New York that it was the 'dead hand' of Government which created the atomic bomb." His good temper was unfailing. Asked by New Haven reporters if he thought the ticket was going to win, he retorted with a grin: "Certainly. What...
...Hecht, who from a safe distance has long and loudly egged on Jewish terrorists, also made a statement. Said he: "[Bernadotte] was an ass not worthy of so fine a death...