Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Lake claimed that the best method, speaking from his own experience, was the requirement of classical education that only the best English be used in the translation of the classical languages. He characterized this statement by pointing out how ridiculous it was for Harvard students to write "silly little essays on the sunset over the Charles River...
When asked to comment upon the Pension plan, a University Hall pension authority issued the following statement...
Athletic authorities here coincided with this statement when questioned late yesterday saying that while Harvard wished to continue football relations with most of the colleges included in the mythical Ivy League, joining such a conference would limit the schedule...
...House of Commons last week, Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, gravely announced that in State papers His Majesty's Government would henceforth refer to the ex-Irish Free State as "Airy." One or two parliamentary eyebrows rose but no M. P. questioned his statement. In Dublin, however, Eamon de Valera looked down his long nose with annoyance. The correct pronunciation of Eire, he firmly announced...
...with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service men. First part of the lesson was the reading aloud by the President of a statement prepared for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles, by their economic experts. Excerpts...