Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interior Fall. His lawyers insisted that he not touch on that since he will soon be placed on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Government; and that his story of that loan, as told to the Senate Investigating Committee, will not be admissible as evidence, although another statement of the same facts to a third party would...
Washington. Chinese Minister to the U. S. Alfred Sze presented a note to Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg asking that foreign treaties be revised. Conversations were continued for some time, but no statement was made. It was understood that Mr. Kellogg had told the Chinese Minister that the U. S. would act only with the other Powers...
London. Foreign Secretary Chamberlain, in a brief statement to the House of Commons, said: "I have evidence that the disturbances in China were fostered or aggravated by agents of another Government. His Majesty's Government is giving close attention to the situation thus created...
...members of hoipolloi upon reading in the press last week that young Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and young Marshall Field had been elected to the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera Company at a special stockholders' meeting. "Both," explained the stockholders, "are serious music lovers." It was this statement, more than the rather unusual honor, that irritated the chanting representatives of the vulgate. They themselves, in their innocent rhymes and naive ditties, displayed a fondnes for music which, they were keenly conscious, has never been recognized with a directorate in any company whatever. They definitely doubted that a pair...
Behind the declaration of this $38,000,00 "melon" lies a story. According to the company's statement, the stock dividend serves to capitalize an increase in the company's surplus of about $36,000,000 arising from appreciation of the General Motors stock held by the company, from about $42 to $70 per share. Du Pont's holdings of General Motors common, first and last, amounts to about 1,340,000 shares, or a share of General Motors for every share of Du Pont outstanding after the new stock dividend...