Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With uncommon candor the opinion of the experts was made known, last week in Tokyo, through an authoritative but of course not official statement for the Staff...
...contrast to that flippant view, which nonetheless expresses the esteem of Europeans for Professor Dewey, is another statement. It was made by one who is per-haps the greatest of living Chinese savants, Dr. Fai Yuan-pei. The occasion was the birth anniversary of Confucius in 1920. Dr. Fai, acting as Rector of the National University at Peking, was presenting an honorary Ph.D. degree to John Dewey...
...within 20 miles of Constantinople. Such a man is most potentially dangerous when he seems to be doing nothing of importance. Therefore, few Greeks were really surprised, last week, when Eleutherios Venizelos journeyed from Crete to Athens and announced with quiet firmness: "I am compelled to recall the statement that I had retired to private life. The insidious forces, Anarchists on the one hand and Royalists on the other, threaten the public security. I shall resume my leadership of the Liberal party...
After the annual meeting of the Wabash Railway at Fort Wayne, Ind., last week Chairman William Henry Williams* made a two-sentence statement...
...statement obfuscated the fact that the Pennsylvania Railroad did not vote the majority Wabash shares which jt recently bought (with Lehigh Valley stock) from Leonor Fresnel Loree's Delaware & Hudson for $63,000,000 cash. Nor did it refer to Mr. Williams recent resignation from the D. & H.'s vice-presidency and board of managers. Nor did it mention Mr. Stair's other business affiliations...