Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bride were married by a Catholic priest, that the Catholic Church forbids the marriage of an impotent person" (italics mine, J. C.). Amusing is the thought that TIME'S editors, who have done such a creditable job in reporting news of the Catholic Church, allowed this absurd statement to slip by their collective eyes. Evidently the press knew, and TIME did not, that no Catholic is ever questioned before or after marriage as to his potency or impotency. JOHN M. CONROY...
...Roosevelt then made, yet did not make, the one statement in which his listeners were most vitally interested. Said...
Scoops were few. The U. P. got a beat on the first German soldier killed in Poland. H. R. Knickerbocker of I. N. S. cabled an exclusive on Hitler's statement that he would rather fight now than later. Headlines were big and bold, but not as big and bold as they could be. The Times used a 36-point, eight-column spread three times during the week, saved its 60-point for worse news. Outside of New York few papers increased the size of their headlines. Headline-of-the-week was the Daily News...
...Examinations in Reading French and Reading German, New Lecture Hall (see statement on first page...
...That in using the statement "Guaranteed by Good Housekeeping as advertised therein," certain advertisers, with the knowledge and sanction of the magazine, have [blurred] the words "as advertised therein." Thus the magazine "acts in conjunction with such advertisers in misleading and deceiving . . . the public...