Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geneva last week the Opinion of Elihu Root proved to be, in effect, a statement of the conditions under which the State Department now believes it possible to obtain the U.S. Senate's consent to U.S. adherence to the World Court. When this matter was last mooted, in 1926, the Senate produced famed "Reservation V"?considered by most Europeans and by nearly all South Americans as an unparalleled piece of arrogance. While agreeing that the U.S. should adhere to the Court, the Senate stipulated in "Reservation V" that thereafter the Court must not without the consent of the United...
Even more remarkable was the statement of Mrs. Barker, the onetime Miss Alfreda Emma Howard, a country lass of Littlehampton, Sussex. She said last week that Transvestite Barker courted her "as any young man would"; and the Register of Brighton Parish Church reveals that they were married as man and wife on Nov. 14, 1923. "I am dazed, stunned!" exclaimed Mrs. Barker. "In our six years of married life I never once suspected that dear Victor was a woman too!" Mrs. Barker's father, a venerable druggist, added his affirmations of astonishment...
...more authoritative statement was made in Sonora on behalf of Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela, presidential candidate and El Capitan de los Cristeros: "When the federal government comes to its senses and sends Calles out of the republic and Fortes Gil (provisional president) agrees to permanent legal operations of government and the carrying out of elections, religious liberty and the pursuit of business without the interference of assassins, then all associated with the revolutionary movement will agree to a settlement...
...February warning. The increase in loans was mostly from corporations, not from banks, and as long as corporations can lend out their surpluses at up to 12% call money rates, the banks generally maintain that there is no way of keeping money out of Wall St. Mr. Warburg's statement did not much annoy the speculators, who were inclined to take it as an admission that they controlled the situation, however deplorable such control might be from Mr. Warburg's standpoint...
Worthy of note is Kreuger & Toll's financial statement. Net earnings in 1927 were $12,400,000; in 1928 they leaped...