Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleased Senator Borah, articulate leader of the dry faction of the G. O. P., to issue the following statement...
Forthwith, the statement went into the newspapers, reached the newsmagazines, covered the country, was widely read, the Senator's acumen felt. Ergo, the deaf and dumb cannot be expected, even by our leading statesmen, to discuss anything. Back fifty, one hundred years goes the science of educating the deaf, in the public estimation...
...remember that last spring I called in question your statement that the Archbishop of Canterbury repeated the Lord's Prayer in Latin at a Convocation. I was so sure that the Archbishop of Canterbury would not use Latin in public that despite your confirmation of the article, I wrote him about it, and received a very polite letter from his Chaplain explaining that the Lord's Prayer always was repeated in Latin at Convocations of the Anglican Church...
...give time for mature deliberation, I stated to the country on Aug. 2 that I do not choose to run for President in 1928. My statement stands. No one should be led to suppose that I have modified it. My decision will be respected...
...used in any contingency. I am too old* to run for President, and I would neither seek nor accept the nomination." Last week Mr. Hughes said: "I am not a candidate in any sense. I am keenly disappointed by President Coolidge's decision. ... I stand by the statement I made last...