Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Sept. 2, you publish a statement about me under the caption "Lobbyist Shearer...
...purpose to go into detail or to explain motives but in reference to the so-called dispute with a Washington correspondent, Mr. Ray Tucker of the New York York Evening Post [now with Scripps-Howard chain papers] made a statement that I was a disgruntled ex-British Naval Officer. I informed Mr. Tucker that I was not British but had served in the U. S. Navy both during the Spanish War and, according to my resignation signed by Josephus Daniels, in the last War which shows that I gave to the United States Government and Great Britain the free...
...White House correspondents. As he read they looked more and more dumbfounded as if they did not believe a President of the United States could be so outspoken. Mr. Hoover read on. with a broad smile at their astonishment. When he had finished reading the correspondents asked whether this statement was for their information or whether they might give him as authority for the sense of it. His answer was that verbatim copies would be given them...
...statement began: "The President said: I have been much interested. . . ." What he was interested in was the disclosure in a New York court that "a naval expert'' had received more than $50,000 from "three naval shipbuilding corporations," for propaganda that he had carried on for a bigger Navy and against naval limitation...
...cannot believe that the responsible directors of these shipbuilding corporations have been a party to these transactions as reported in this lawsuit, but their statement of the case is needed. It is due to the public, it is due to the Government, and it is due to the corporations themselves...