Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact is, and I make this statement after recent investigation and I make it with full confidence of its accuracy, that Mr. Mellon owns less than 16 1/2% of the stock of the Aluminum Co. of America. He owns less than 16 1/2% of the voting stock and less than 16 1/2% of the preferred stock, which is nonvoting, so I am not quibbling about the distinction between voting and non-voting stock. His brother, Mr. Richard Mellon, owns a similar amount, and the two of them together own less than 33% of the stock in the company...
...Reed made answer: "I asked Mr. Mellon how much stock he had and whether he had any objection to making a statement what the figure was. He answered the question...
...them, Congressman Emanuel Celler, Democrat from Brooklyn, issued a statement: "If the Carthcart case shows anything it proves that our Government has no right to meddle in private morals of foreigners visiting us. The so-called 'moral turpitude' of the Countess Cathcart is nothing compared to the 'moral turpitude' of the chasing but not chaste Prince of Wales. Why was he allowed to enter? His parents are up all night worrying about his night life. How about Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanore Duse? They made no bones about their affairs and were admitted. Gaby Deslys was no novice...
Coach Mitchell of the University baseball team, in a statement to the CRIMSON last night, smashed into Harvard indifference when he charged that it was the most important factor which was placing the University baseball teams in a position where they might be trampled on by their opponents...
...enumerate. A man of indefatigable energy, what he has not written he has edited, so that it is no generalization to declare that he has had his finger in almost every historical pie baked in the last forty years in this country. To realize the truth of this statement it is only necessary to glance in the preface of any work on international law or diplomatic history, and note the ever-present thanks for his advice and sagacity...