Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominator Roosevelt wiped up this bit of political mud with a public statement: "Full accommodation was provided for me and my family in the Assembly Chamber, but as I reached Albany late and walking up many steps in a slow process, it was easier and cooler to listen to the speeches outdoors...
...Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago is a supreme example of the importance of not being earnest, of "giving a good show." (In this connection, Mr. Kent makes the astonishing statement that President Coolidge has "a profound distaste" for fishing...
Tired of concocting, weasling. Nominee Smith suddenly turned on the famed chefs, told them to eat their own mud pie. He issued a lengthy statement. He explained his every vote as a New York Assemblyman on bills connected with prostitution, gambling, the saloon. He said...
Coincident with this new eruption of an old but by no means superannuated volcano, came a statement from the London Times to the effect that its readers might soon expect the publication of a comparatively complete report of the oft-reported but still mysterious Malines Conversations. In its statement, the Times asserted that at the time of the Malines Conversations an unofficial representative of the Vatican expressed Rome's willingness to grant the British Primate a rank in the Roman hierarchy "equal to and perhaps above the cardinals," should he desire to accept the Roman Catholic faith...
...therefore ask you, in a spirit of American fair play, to invite me to your church at any time that suits your convenience during the week inclusive of and beginning Sept. 2 and I ask you to make the same statement in my presence with such proof of its truth as you may be able to advance. I further ask that you permit me to make full reply. In order that you may not be embarrassed, I will permit you, if you choose, to conduct the meeting by question and answer...