Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behalf of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, I am calling your attention to the following statement contained on page 10 of your issue of February 13, 1928, to wit:-"The day after Senator Johnson spoke in the Senate, a band of Negroes, hired by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company, swaggered down a road near Horning, Pa., and fired revolver volleys into the windows of a school filled with strikers' children. One of the strikebreakers, arrested, said he had been paid $25 by the coal company to shoot up strikers in their barracks. This was reported as a typical incident...
...only is the statement regarding the negroes shooting up the strikers in their barracks not true, but the plain inference of the language "hired by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company," coupled with the later statement in the paragraph that one of the strikebreakers had been paid $25 by the Coal Company for this purpose, is that the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation knowingly and intentionally set about to cause a breach of the peace, which is not the fact...
Report that the Negro had retracted his statement about being paid $25 to shoot up strikers, did not come from Horning Pa., until after TIME, Feb. 13, had been printed and distributed...
...late hour last night the CRIMSON was able to get a statement from Allston Burr '89, chairman of the committee in charge of raising the funds for a war memorial chapel. Mr. Burr's statement read as follows: "In regard to the report of the New York committee I have decided not to say anything now. But I have been able to consult other members of the committee on raising funds to build a University church which have now reached a total of $750,000 and it is probable that a definite statement will be made later...
...Some Harvard men may be going with me on my next expedition, but since I have at present about 3000 applications for service. I could not very well make a definite statement. In experiences such as we shall face in the polar regions, the best or the worst will come to the surface in any man, and we want to be pretty sure of these that go with...