Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note in TIME of April 12, p.18, the statement that Princeton and Bates are the only colleges, according to the records of the Modern Language Association, which do not give courses in American Literature. I desire to correct that error so far as Bates is concerned...
...General Lincoln C. Andrews (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of prohibition) occupied the hearings for most of two days. He was exhaustively quizzed on facts and figures. Such details as his statement that "non-freeze" alcoholic compounds sold in automobile filling stations were being used for booze, provoked careful examination...
...League Delegate. The People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (Foreign Minister Tchitcherin) sent out a 3,000-word statement to the press last week, the nub of which was that Soviet Russia will not send a delegate to the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Conference at Geneva, now scheduled for May 18. The statement wandered far afield and declared among other things that the recent League fiasco had led to "a weakening of coherence among Western European powers" which "clears a path for the growing American economic penetration of Europe, after which American political penetration is but a step...
...life and Burbank's name, the most notable in his walk of life, has entered every household in civilization. Among his closest friends were Henry Ford and Thomas Alva Edison. His death was doubtless hastened by the furor that arose when he stated his religious views publicly, a statement excited by news of Henry Ford's alleged belief in theosophy, and inspired by his own belief that "the unpardonable sin of man is ignorance. . . . There is no salvation whatever except through science...
...Charles Suydam Cutting* because, as the result of a bad attack of influenza, his muscles were so stiff that he could not play in the challenge round of the national court tennis tournament at the Racquet & Tennis club. The funereal tone of the newspaper notices merely emphasized a statement made by a wise man that "athletes die twice?once when Death takes them and once when they retire from sport...