Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference, a reporter asked what the President thought of a proposal by Senator Sherman Minton to make it a felony for a newspaper knowingly to publish a false statement. Jovially Franklin Roosevelt replied that he was trying to pare expenses and didn't want to build any more prisons...
Although he would not make a statement regarding the promise of the 1938 team, Head Coach Dick Harlow, expressed himself as satisfied with the results obtained from the five weeks of spring football practice just concluded, because of the development of a number of inexperienced players which he hopes will make a definitely better team...
...connection with the notice which appeared in the CRIMSON on Saturday, April 30, to the effect that the Division of History, Government, and Economics "has abolished the correlation examination for Seniors out for honors," the Chairman of the Divisional Board of Examiners has made the following statement...
...good friend Sumner Welles, who last summer met and greatly admired England's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Last week, according to the most reliable reports, Mr. Chamberlain strongly urged his new friend, in the absence of canny Secretary Hull, to persuade Mr. Roosevelt to issue a statement approving the Anglo-Italian pact. In any case Mr. Roosevelt, who last fall at Chicago proposed a "quarantine for aggressor nations," felt obliged to tell a press conference: 1) that he had neither approved nor disapproved the Scott Resolution, and 2) that the U. S. "approved" the Anglo-Italian agreement...
...Bernard Mannes Baruch told the Byrnes Committee that the chief cause of the country's current economic ills was the Administration's policies-urged modification of the levies on 1) undistributed profits and 2) capital gains. Most sensational item in the report last week was a flat statement to the effect that the best way to diminish unemployment was to repeal the first and modify the second...