Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement from President Hoover as to where he stands on the tariff...
...Senator Caraway of Arkansas: "Prohibition suffered the worst blow by the Wickersham statement that it has ever received. ... I expect Wickersham to resign soon. . . . Personally I hope he resigns. . . . The usefulness of the Commission is destroyed if he remains at its head...
...from the great Democratic State of South Carolina but . . . the Republican party has given us a great President and I believe he is going down in history as one of the greatest Presidents [because] he stands for civic righteousness and enforcement of the law. ... I want to make this statement fearlessly while I stand on my feet: The great South, the great West and the great women of America* are for Prohibition and we shall have passed from the scene-I hope we shall not be forgotten-when Prohibition will still be here...
...Governor Roosevelt was "definitely disturbed" by "hot weather stories" about his presidential candidacy. Later in the week he issued a statement which the politically-wise took none too seriously: "I am not a candidate for President .... Purely speculative and wholly false insinuations about any consideration which I am giving to national candidacy. . . . This [Governorship of New York] is a man's-sized job which takes all my time...
Having denied last fortnight the New York Graphic's statement that he had resigned as its editor and publisher so he could "retire and rest" (TIME, July 22), Emile Henry Gauvreau last week told what he was going...