Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward S. Harkness will give to the University a total of $11,392,000 for the purpose of carrying out its plan for subdividing the undergraduate body into small residential groups, it was announced yesterday from University Hall. The official statement revealed for the first time the exact sum necessary for the ultimate completion of the House Plan and was the first authoritative announcement that Mr. Harkness is the donor...
...completely blast this British fabrication Laborite Ponsonby had adduced two proofs: 1) The indisputable fact that German headquarters were never at Aix-la-Chapelle; and 2) The statement of British General Sir Frederick Maurice who, after the War, had German files and archives thoroughly ransacked without finding a single German newspaper or document indicating that Wilhelm never used the phrase "contemptible little army...
Said he in Berlin last week: "There is no occasion for anybody to be excited about it. There will be only a few mathematicians who will be inclined to read it and. although I never did make that statement which was ascribed to me that only eleven people in the world could understand relativity, I really don't believe that there will be more than a handful of people who will take the trouble to follow its argument...
Meanwhile, Frank J. Hogan, smart lawyer for Colonel Stewart, pointed out that the oil man had been tried and acquitted of charges of contempt and perjury growing out of his testimony before the Senate committee. Lawyer Hogan made public a statement signed by the twelve jurors of the perjury trial, saying: "It was our intention that our verdict should stand as a vindication of Colonel Stewart...
...April 1927, William Crapo Durant, founder and for two terms controlling power of General Motors, bought advertising space in the daily newspapers, published therein the statement that he had resigned from several directorates to devote his full time and attention to Durant Motors...