Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formally renouncing this place. It was in answer to a letter from one Warren Shaw Fisher of the "Progressive Political League" of Manhattan: I have received quite a large number of other letters similar to yours, from other sections of the country, in which the writers make the same statement that is made in your letter that is, that I have "assumed" the leadership of the Progressive Party. I do not understand how this idea became so prevalent over the country...
...Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, made a long statement on Indian affairs. The subject was whether or no the 1919 Government of India Act (conferring limited responsible government) would be revised before the stipulated date of 1929. The Cabinet, said Lord Birkenhead, had not reached a decision; but he could say that "the door of acceleration was not open to menace, and still less could it be stormed by violence...
Nicaragua. Local newspapers of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, announced that the U. S. marines would leave on Aug. 4. Washington confirmed the statement by stating that they would leave "early in August." The marines have been in Nicaragua for 13 years and were to have left early this year, but President Carlos Solorzano requested that they remain to maintain order pending the creation of a native constabulary. The constabulary is now functioning...
...friends, harmless obsessions with which I sometimes bore them, but which have a direct bearing on this important problem. The first is the comparative uselessness of men above 40 years of age. This may seem shocking, and yet read aright the world's history bears out he statement.... My second fixed idea is the uslessness of men above 60 years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. ... Whether Anthony Trollope's suggestion of a college and chloroform...
...Chinese mission field asserted that 49 out of 50 missionaries in China would resign rather than submit to being catechized as to their faith. Dr. Meigs of Illinois, on behalf of the Modernists, proposed to amend the resolution by striking out the insistence on the creed, leaving the statement that the New Testament is the basis of the Baptist faith. The cohorts were summoned to vote. The Modernists polled 742 to the Fundamentalists 574. So the resolution was shorn of its point-and adopted...