Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dearborn Independent." William J. Cameron, editor of the Dearborn Independent, last week professed to find Mr. Ford's statement unexpected. The current issue of that weekly mentioned no change in policy. Said Editor Cameron: "It is all news to me, and I cannot believe it is true. This is the first time I have heard of any such intention on the part of Mr. Ford, and I most certainly will get in touch with him and find out what is behind...
...Ford's statement is very greatly belated. It would have been much more to his credit had it been written five years ago." Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck...
...Under what circumstances he eight weeks later wrote and signed the statement that he sent to me for publication I do not know." The effect of this was discounted by the interpretation furnished the New York World by its Washington correspondent, Charles Michelson: "Henry Ford's recantation of his anti-Semitism ... is taken by the politicians to be his first step towards entering the 1928 campaign for the Presidency. The circumstance that he made the Hearst newspapers his vehicle for the dissemination of his change of heart is interpreted as indicating that William Randolph Hearst is about to push...
Divertissement. To test the repeated British statement that the Admiralty's demands were "absolute"?that is to say not "relative" to U. S. naval strength?Mr. Gibson suddenly proposed last week an arrangement under which the British demands for 7,500-ton cruisers would be largely met, but the U. S. would have a slight supremacy in 10,000-ton cruisers...
...This statement did not exaggerate, and the task of taming Ireland's "wild men" fell to 28-year-old Kevin O'Higgins. At one time the new Free State had to employ an army of 40,000 men to put down that violence which had become second nature to Irishmen. Firmness was needed and Mr. O'Higgins proved himself capable of making bold, salutary decisions with the quickness of a steel trap. His enemies became innumerable. His success in quieting Ireland and restoring the police power earned him a title: "Ireland's Strongest...