Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wang admits he has never read the Talmud, but goes on to criticize it for obscenity and immorality. One of his other charges against American Jews is that their support of Israel weakens our national economy. He has no answer to the statement that Israel is the one nation most nearly embodying his concept of "awareness of one's own racial and cultural heritage...
...neutralize-Central-Europe proposals of Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki-since endorsed by the Kremlin as a suitable topic for the summit-warned all U.S. diplomatic missions overseas that such a plan is "extremely dangerous." Added the President at his press conference, in a definitive statement of policy on such neutralize-Europe agreements...
...district's tax fund by forging the names of the school board's president, secretary and treasurer, then revolved the check back into the high school fund. He also forged school-board notes to obtain bank loans, once for as much as $60,000. When the bank statement came in each month, he made a few changes, removed the forged, unnumbered checks as if they had never existed. His records seemed invariably in order, and the board thought, not entirely without reason, that good old "Casey" Stengle was the very model of efficiency...
...special honor to Ojeda. Larrazabal made that visit the occasion for his first policy speech. He promised fulfillment of lawful commitments, protection of foreign investments and guaranteed political freedom. The statement on investments pleased the oilmen and steelmen who hold most of the U.S.'s $3 billion investment in Venezuela. In the aftermath of the revolt, some resentment had flared against the U.S. for having maintained comfortable relations with the dictator; with this feeling was mingled a reaction against recent cutbacks in U.S. imports of Venezuelan...
Behind that statement is the fact that Texas customs (and lax grand juries) make it easier there than in any other state for a murderer to escape punishment. Of the 136 killings in 1957, only 27 cases went to trial. Only one defendant got the death penalty, and only one a life sentence. The rest got a variety of jail terms-and two of the terms, for five years each, were suspended...