Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Sergio Osmena, took his proper place in the van of a colorful street parade proceeding through Luenta Public Park where Filipino lovers love o' nights. The Senator, who is credited with having defeated in 69th Congress repressive Filipino legislation, then called upon Col. Thompson, finally issued a statement. Said he: "Americans as a whole have the most friendly feeling toward us, sympathize with our aspirations for independence, recognize fully the obligation contained in the preamble to the Jones law and are disposed to favor more, instead of less, self-government for us." Recently...
...miles of steaming, the company can show a profit of only "two bob" (2 shillings=24.5c each) per mile.† As President of the Board of the P. & O., James Lyle Mackay, First Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, 73, unchallenged maritime seigneur,** deigned to make no statement last week when the P. & O. balance sheet flashed over the cables. For him spoke his son-in-law, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, a Director of the Bank of England and of the P. & O.: "1925 was the worst year for British shipping on record." Corroborative statistics released by the Cunard Line show...
...added. . . . Manhattanites reflected that Mr. Planalp should some day call on James Leffel of 39 Courtland Street, their city; Philadelphians took satisfaction from the 16 double-actioned Reber families listed in their telephone book; San Francisco was complacent with six taxpayers named Renner. . . . Children quoted out of copybooks a statement they are taught to believe was first addressed to Eve: "Madam, I'm Adam...
...ethics to use them for personal financial gains, that Reporter Nicholls would probably get a raise in salary. Later, a wireless message from Thomas Cochran to J. P. Morgan & Co. said: "I spoke with enthusiasm of the earnings, management and prospects of the General Motors Corporation. I authorized no statement of any kind as to the future price of the stock which obviously no one can foretell...
...technique, for over all the able and even powerful work of Mr. Inness Jr. is the shadow of the man who signed his pictures "Inness." "My first memory of my father," George Inness Jr. used to say, "is the vision of him painting a washtub. . . ." There was in that statement perhaps more vision than memory, for Artist Inness spent little time adorning laundry utensils. Even the stories about his hard-pressed boyhood-how he cut off a cat's tail to get his first paintbrush-are somewhat fanciful. He was poor. He was never indigent. From the time that...