Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of the preliminary examination of Burgess' body was announced yesterday, and Boston officials said that in all probability there would be no official statement until after consultation with the parents...
...Administration, President Roosevelt has yet to decide what to do about Recession. Last week, however, he decided what not to do about it. And what he decided was not far different from what Herbert Hoover decided eight years ago when another Depression was getting under way: he made a statement against reducing wages...
...Henry Ford can alter wages and prices at will, Franklin Roosevelt cannot. This made the President's whole statement rather iffy. Iffiest fact of it was his concluding sentiment: "If industries reduce wages this winter and spring they will be deliberately encouraging the withholding of buying-they will be fostering a downward spiral, and they will make it necessary for their Government to consider other means of creating purchasing power." The phrase "other means of creating purchasing power" could mean only one thing-spending. Realists in Washington felt morally sure last week that unless business picked...
Squirming in sequins on a Hollywood dressing-room chaise longue, Mae West made her first public statement on her notorious Adam & Eve travesty (TIME, Dec. 27; Jan. 24). Of NBC and Advertising Agents J. Walter Thompson she said: "They were no gentlemen. They let a lady down...
...fill out a column. By the weirdest chance this second letter attacked Sir George for attacking Catholicism: Didactic, Semitic, would-be letter -writer George Turner should learn that in the art of good journalism lies the avoidance of tautology. His very being would de novo prefer Islam and his statement of such fact is redundant. Exasperated, Sir George again sued hapless, tautological Cavalcade and has just settled for 5,000 of the dollars Cavalcade can ill spare. "Even our solicitors," said flabbergasted Editor Brittain, "looked at me queerly when I told them the facts...