Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME appears a statement that our company announced plans to close down four of its plants, turning 900 workers into 900 unemployed...
...briefcase Foreign Minister Delbos carries the word to Warsaw, Bucharest, Belgrade, and to Prague that the outlet for Germany will be found principally in redistribution of colonies. This welcome news is the result of a conference Monday and Tuesday in London which would up in a happy statement that England would stand by France in her alliance with the Little Entente. Simultaneously "trial balloons" ascended and hints were let slip that in the near future a general conference of Colonial Powers would be held for some sort of a reshuffle of Germany's old possessions...
...William Randolph Hearst began to set his enormous affairs in order. One of the properties on which he wanted the public to lend him $35,500,000 was St. Donat's Castle in Wales, the Lord of San Simeon's European seigniory. Two months ago the registration statement by which Mr. Hearst sought the approval of the Securities & Exchange Commission for an issue of bonds to that amount was discreetly withdrawn. Recently, however, Publisher Hearst unburdened himself of four of his newspapers, and last week he succeeded in realizing a little something on St. Donat...
...Building mural, embellished with an Eskimo message to Puerto Ricans ("Go ahead. Let us change chiefs''), made him a minor hero among Nationalists. At San Juan Mr. Kent offered to testify in the trial of eleven Nationalists charged with killing a policeman, warded off requests for a statement by declaring "If I made one, I'd make it in Eskimo," prepared to sail on to South America...
Last week Director Bel decided he might as well publicize the conditions in his hospital as let others do so. In a statement, remarkable in Louisiana where doctors in public office have had to mind their tongues, Dr. Bel, a heart specialist who has been Charity's director since early in 1936, declared: "I have attempted in every way possible to at least ameliorate the frightful conditions surrounding the hospitalization of patients. My efforts, I believe, have been somewhat successful. The ratio of patients to beds used to be 1.7. It is now 1.2. But, in spite of this...