Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well, they reached rock bottom last week," my date astutely commented Tuesday night as we left the Tufts Arena Theater. And right she was, both in the statement itself and in its implication that Tufts has taken the first tentative step back toward respectability with the production this week of Alison's House by Susan Glaspell...
...their duties unembarrassed by the fear of damage suits . . . which might appreciably inhibit the fearless, vigorous and effective administration of policies." So saying, the Court extended to all policymaking federal officials a rule that it had applied to Cabinet officers back in 1896: they have "absolute privilege" in making statements on "matters committed by law to [their] control or supervision," meaning that they are immune from libel suits even if a statement is malicious and false...
...race for the Senate in 1950 against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas, Governor Warren withheld endorsement until the Nixon forces goaded Mrs. Douglas into endorsing Warren's Democratic rival for Governor, Jimmy Roosevelt. Warren then endorsed Nixon in this wondrous, no-name way: "In view of ... Mrs. Douglas' . . . statement, I might ask her how she expects I will vote when I mark my ballot for U.S. Senator next Tuesday...
Castro ambassador's statement in London, the Dominican envoy there agreed that it was "most logical" for a country to build a force to defend its shores...
...exclusively to the fact that I have always opposed an attitude which permits Communists to take prominent positions within the rebel army." The weakling President replied: "I absolutely reject Communist ideology," but within moments the palace recalled the letter, issued a substitute omitting Urrutia's anti-Communist statement. The government launched a nationwide man hunt for anti-Communist Diaz Lanz, but he got away, probably to Miami...