Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have said that we are getting too learned, and in support of that statement I can assert, on the word of Tom Hood, that `the Boke Man is a Dunce in being Wise.' I call for some antidote for such learned societies as the Natural History Society, the German Club, and the French Club; for the establishment, in short, of `The ignorance Club of Harvard College.' This I do not recommend; I insist upon it as a necessity. If we do not take some step in this direction, if we calmly submit to seeing the requirements for admission slowly added...
...second statement was a criticism of ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald's leadership. Mrs. Snowden inferred that it had been bad; she actually said he had taken too much upon himself. She made no excuses for him. Unfortunately, coming from the wife of the ex-Chancellor who was notoriously out of sorts with his Chief, such a statement provoked much criticism...
...Premier Herriot, in a statement to the Chamber, declared that his Government was adamantly opposed to a policy of currency inflation: "It is not our fault that during this year the country will have to meet enormous bills. But whoever is to blame, and whatever the consequences of our decision, this Government is formally determined there shall be no inflation. However desperate may be the measure we may be forced to take, and even should personal interest be shaken, there will be no inflation. It is only in that way we can do our duty toward the future...
According to a semi-official statement from Moscow, the protracted campaign waged against War Lord Leon Trotzky by the Bolshevik Triumvirate-Stalin, Zinoviev, Kemenev-came...
...parlor game, participated in by Arthur J. Balfour, Professor Murray and others, mentioned in TIME of Dec. 22, page 18, appears mystifying, but equally so seems the statement that Professor Murray "went completely through the next room and into the empty dining room beyond, where the servants were clearing off the table...