Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Virginia has never conferred an honorary degree upon anyone in its entire history. The statement, therefore, that a degree of LL. D. from the University of Virginia has been conferred upon the Hon. Herbert Hoover, is an error...
...juxtaposition of your very interesting article on President E. A. Alderman of the University of Virginia and the list of "famed" personages given honorary degrees by other institutions of learning (TIME, June 18) is a striking coincidence. In an article in The American Mercury last winter, the statement was made that the Secretary of Commerce had received an LL. D. from the University of Virginia. In response to a request for verification of this statement, I received the following letter from President Alderman...
...answer to the Borah questionnaire, Lawyer Clarence Darrow said: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with him" (TIME, March 5). Last week, questions were submitted asking Nominee Hoover to confirm or deny the Darrow statement and also to record: 1) whether Mr. Hoover has taken a drink since Prohibition; 2) whether Mr. Hoover would take a drink now if assured the liquor was legally possessed. Nominee Hoover's secretary, chubby George Akerson, refused to transmit the questions to his chief. Vexed, he cried...
...very simple experience, during which Mrs. Smith at no time seemed nonplussed. She had, after all, undergone the same sort of thing several times before. Mrs. Charles Dana (Irene Langhorne) Gibson, who was present as a special sort of Tammany delegate, left nothing to chance, however, and made a statement to the press. It was after a visit paid by Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson at the Jesse Holman Joneses'. Said Mrs. Gibson, whose sister, as everyone knows, is Lady Astor: "You needn't worry about Mrs. Smith in the White House or anywhere else. "That...
...deaf. Sometimes it seems to his mother [Prin-cess Helen] and me that Mihai can be very absent-minded about remembering to do as he is told. But what normal child is not? . . . "Some of the American rotogravures, I believe, have printed pictures of my grandson with the statement that my pet name for him is 'Madcap Mihai' or even 'Mad Mihai'! I have never called my grandson by any such names." Observers recalled that the "sinister efforts" of partisans of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol to discredit his son, King Mihai, achieved such success, last...