Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your lucid narrative report [TIME, Feb. 4] of the events leading up to the resignation of Dr. Clarence Cook Little you appear to make one statement that can hardly be justified, in view of your accustomed nose for facts...
First, a bit of criticism: it is contended by a recent statement printed in the Dallas Morning News that the United States Senate, four years or so ago, appropriated from public funds, $7,500, to be paid to Senator Green of Vermont. It is contended that this amount was voted to the Senator that he might pay his surgeon and doctor bills incident to treatment of a serious disability received when hit by a stray bullet fired by warring bootleggers on historic Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. I am satisfied that this is a correct statement of fact...
...This statement can only mean that Rumania has received what she considers a satisfactory assurance that Russia-will not in future try to get back Bessarabia. Any other understanding would not, from the Rumanian point of view, leave the Bessa-rabian question "finally settled...
...within its reasonable claims for rediscount facilities" when it borrows Federal Reserve money to be used in "making or maintaining speculative loans." Further, the board threatened to "restrain the use of Federal Reserve credit facilities in aid of the growth of speculative credit." Taken at face value, this statement would mean refusal of loans for speculative purposes, plus a rise in the rediscount rate, which in turn would mean a stockmarket afflicted with scarce money and falling prices...
...statement of the Boston University Council reads in part: "By using the above method in the selection of captains, the University will get away from all fraternity politics, which have a tendency to be detrimental to the best athletics in the University." The above quotation sets forth one of the chief arguments for a change in policy. Since the situation of club politics does not exist in this university, the need of change felt by Boston University is not applicable to Harvard in the opinion of Mr. Bingham...