Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the Science Department of your Feb. 18 edition I noticed a statement regarding the fact that copies of Albert Einstein's "Coherent Field Theory" had reached this country. Will you be so kind as to inform me where it would be possible to obtain a copy of this booklet...
Premise One was the unchallengeable statement by H. R. H. that 1,400,000 Britons are out of work. Premise Two consisted of the speaker's royal testimony that on his recent travels to every part of the Globe he has personally seen that British salesmanship and merchandizing methods overseas are still far behind the standard set by competition. (No one doubts that this was so, prior to 1914, when German salesmen were stealing British business from Siam to South America; but H. R. H. was bold indeed to charge that British salesmanship still lags behind...
With a lowering scowl and a menacing jut of his heavy jaw, the Seņor President indicated to correspondents his intense displeasure at a statement issued, last week, from a secret hiding place, by the Bishop of San Luis Potosi, now spokesman for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Mexico. Opening with a reference to the writer's "serenity" and "calmness," this epistle denied that the Episcopate or clergy had had any part in the recent "excesses" (dynamitings), and went on to announce that priests who obey the Government's decree requiring them to register their names and addresses (TIME...
...result of trials held recently, 35 men have been taken into the Freshman Instrumental Clubs, according to a statement made last night by Eustin Dearborn '32, recently appointed president of the Clubs. These men, together with the 17 Freshmen, previously chosen members of the University Instrumental Clubs, will fill positions in the Vocal, Mandolin and Banjo units of the new organization...
...implication of private privilege contained in the story--an implication which is the right of every newspaperman--has behind it, in all probability, the substance of actual fact. Only the members of the Harvard Corporation knew what passed in their meeting on Monday. In the absence of an official statement of the transaction, it appears evident that whatever news there was, found its way into print through a friendly medium in the Corporation itself...