Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winston-Salem, N. C., Mayor Walker made perhaps the least sincere statement of his whole trip. "Do you realize," he said, "that I come from a community that gives politics little thought?" The inaccuracy of this statement was that New Yorkers were "thinking plenty" about politics-thinking that perhaps the Walker trip was, after all, a bid to succeed Governor Smith at Albany...
...singular negative twist of this statement made people read it again. What upright-downright politician was this, so lacking in illusions, so intellectually honest, that he would publicly admit that the voters might conceivably get along without...
Readers of national advertising quickly recognized the accent of his statement as the same accent that appears in advertisements for the Davey Tree Expert Co., such as: "Davey Tree Surgeons will not treat any tree for you that in their judgment is too far gone. The reason for this is obvious to them, but you with your untrained eyes must depend on their professional honor. . . . Davey Tree Surgeons will give nothing but first aid treatment to a tree that is starving. . . . Many clients urge them to break this rule by treatment of a hopeless case. . . . They answer...
...supremacy when the War brought an opportunity to strike for Czechoslovak freedom. As to just how this vital group was formed Professor Masaryk is regrettably a trifle reticent. He barely mentions by their last names a few of the men who aided him, then hurries on to the statement that "toward the Summer of 1915 . . . my authority was . . . recognized on every hand" among Czechoslovaks...
...Secretariat of the League of Nations was reported to show an 85% concurrence with the much mooted project of moving the seat of the League to a larger metropolis. Vienna has loomed as the most likely choice, and Chancellor Ignaz Seipel has welcomed the scheme in a statement that he is "not opposed" (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week several League straw voters were reported to have complained that "the atmosphere of a small town [Geneva] is stifling" and that Swiss society at Geneva has not appreciably bestirred itself to welcome or entertain League folk...