Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the Fianna Fail deputies and their leader actually had in mind appeared from a jointly signed statement which they made public before swearing: "So there can be no doubt as to their duty and no misunderstanding the Fianna Fail deputies hereby give public notice in advance to the Irish people and to all whom it may concern that they propose to regard the declaration [oath] as an empty formality and repeat that their only allegiance is to the Irish nation and that it will be given to no other power or authority...
...daring statement, for Giotto was not only one of the most brilliant artists of the Renaissance but was also a leader in the movement to introduce three dimensional backgrounds in painting. Up to then, pictures were painted against flat back-grounds...
...then advised Mr. Broun (casually, he says: pointedly, they say) to write about something else. He wrote two more pieces about Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti. The World refused them print. Readers asked why. Ralph Pulitzer, son of the late Joseph Pulitzer through whose genius the World grew famed, signed a statement. He caused the statement to be published at the top of the space daily allotted to "It Seems To Me" by Heywood Broun. The statement was headed REGARDING MR. BROUN. it ended: THE World THEREUPON EXERCISING ITS RIGHT OP FINAL DE CISION AS TO WHAT IT WILL PUB LISH...
From Clarence H. Mackay, head of the Postal-Telegraph-Commercial Cable interests, came no answer. He was shooting grouse in Scotland (see p. 11). And from his subordinates came no official statement. Nevertheless a reliable report got about last week that the Mackay in terests would meet the Newcomb Carlton interests (Western Union) with measures never before adopted by a U. S. cable company with radio. For perhaps five millions, estimators said, the Mackay system could and would set up a "beam" radio service similar to the Marconi Co.'s present, and the Radio Corp.'s proposed, transatlantic...
...from an old until you passed it. The highway had had its face lifted but would do its back hair as always. Acts. That motorists may be obliged to tread their accelerators stoutly to have a front view of any new Fords going their way, was suggested by a statement issued last week by Edsel B. Ford (president of the Ford Motor Co.), the first official announcement in many weeks of rumor. He spoke of the car as "an accomplished fact" and reported the results of the country road test, made one warm summer day over hill and plain, curve...