Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plain Language. First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett, who last month instructed postmasters to omit departmental slang* from their reports and to use "every day" language instead (TIME, Oct. 31), last week issued a statement to his subordinates urging them to see that letters stamped for special delivery should really be specially delivered. He pointed out that the Special Delivery stamp is a contract between the mailer and the U. S. He invited public criticism of the special delivery service in future. Quite as notable as the frankness of the statement, which implicitly admitted a shortcoming of the Department...
...until last week did anyone close to the late President Harding make any public statement about The President's Daughter. This statement was not a denial but a protest. Hearing that the book was having an everwidening sale, Dr. George T. Harding Jr. (the late President's brother), Mrs. Ralph Lewis and Mrs. H. H. Votaw (the late Presidents sisters), conferred with friends in Marion, Ohio. Letters from other friends had been pouring in urging action of some kind. Grant E. Mouser of Marion, a lifelong friend of President Harding and often host to Nan Britton, was the author...
...Burns International Detective Agency, the partners, of which William J. Burns and his son W. Sherman Burns, were summoned to show the complete records of their alleged "jury-hanging" job, issued a statement to the effect that the Burns operatives had in no way broken...
...truth, according to a statement issued by a committee headed by the Archbishop of York, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, there is no room in the Abbey for memorials to future eminent dead. Said the Archbishop: "The time has now come when the nation must decide whether or not Westminster Abbey is to retain the place it has held for centuries as the shrine of the nations memorials to great men and women. Delay in making this decision is no longer possible...
...Houdini appeared outside. Sir Arthur made the remark that in the presence and hearing of about 300 magicians that Houdini had disintegrated his body, slipped through the keyhole or some cracks and then had reassembled himself, all in the space of about ten seconds. Such a statement is too ridiculous for even a schoolboy to make...