Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student in a German university enjoys a liberty which the American student does not possess." This statement was made to a CRIMSON reporter by Professor Gustay Pauli, who is now giving a series of public lectures on "German Painting from Classicism to Expressionism" under the auspices of the Germanic Museum and the Fogg-Art Museum. Professor Pauli has been connected with museums in Buemen and Dresden and at present is director of the Hamburg Art Museum. He has also attended the universities of Strassburg. Basle and Leipzig...
...Occasionally TIME uses "verbal" when -oral" is the correct word for a spoken statement...
Nominee Hoover's secretary, George Akerson, sent Governor Bilbo a long, long telegram last week. He protested that Governor Bilbo, if quoted correctly in the press, had made "the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign." The reported Bilboasm was to the effect that, on one of his Mississippi flood-relief trips, Mr. Hoover had "got off the train at Mound Bayou, Miss., and paid a call on a colored woman there and later danced with her." "That statement is unqualifiedly false," declared Secretary Akerson. "I was with Mr. Hoover every hour...
...before the Nominee finished adducing details to prove his point. This was, perhaps, just as well for the Nominee, because many of his details were ill-chosen, incorrect. That the main point was felt and resented in Washington was seen next day when Secretary Mellon issued a long parrying statement which knocked most of the Smith details, though not the main point, out of court...
...great Chinese Puzzle Issue in the campaign. At Sedalia, Nominee Smith said the Government's fiscal reports were ''about as near a Chinese puzzle as anything I ever saw in my life.'' Mr. Mellon retorted that this was "perhaps the most accurate statement in Governor Smith's entire speech." In Chicago, Governor Smith retorted: "If it is a Chinese puzzle to me with all my experience in diving into governmental figures running over a quarter of a century, what must it be to the fellow on the sidewalk? . . . I frankly admit...