Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those of us who were "in on the know" procured and devoured (somewhat secretively in a few cases I fear) copies of that book. Concert night, the program notes stated that Mr. Cadman's composition had been influenced by the writings of George W. Cable, at which statement several of us held our tongues in our cheeks. . . . A. F. MUENCHOW Omaha...
...starvation for six days, surrendered in person. Captives totaled 40 important officers, 2,450 other ranks and about 3.000 civilians. Among the last to surrender was the Church Militant in the person of Anselmo Polanca Fonseca, Bishop of Teruel. Conducted to a nearby railroad station, he signed a cautious statement...
Next day Bermuda papers, which up to this time had suppressed completely a story that was being printed all over the world, had to carry it at last when the Bishop of Bermuda came out with a statement publicly castigating himself: "The Bishop regrets that, yielding to a sudden impulse which he ought to have known better how to control, he so far forgot himself. . . . He realizes that he had no right whatever to take this arbitrary action. ... If this protest was needed, there is no possible excuse for the manner in which it was made, particularly...
Since close-mouthed silence in political matters is the rule among army officers of the Great Powers, Frenchmen attached unusual importance last week to a brief statement by General Julien Claude Marie Dufieux. Inspector General of Infantry and of Schools for Officers, a Wartime protege of Marshal Petain. General Dufieux coolly announced that two months ago he received convincing evidence that the Soviet Embassy in Paris was assisting French Communists to prepare a coup d'etat which was to have seized the Government on November 16, and laid this evidence before famed General Marie Gustave Gamelin, chief...
Nothing could be more asinine than a statement issued recently by School Committeeman Joseph Lee, Jr., who would strip Harvard of its leadership in American education because, he says, it no longer fits young men for the job of life. For one who is so tied up with education, his attitude is a bit unseemly...