Word: statements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know what sources of information TIME has, nor upon what you base your statement . . . but may I say that Senator Chavez was elected by an overwhelming majority of 25,000 votes both times he ran as a candidate for Member of the House of Representatives...
...fished for salmon in the gorge of Newfoundland's Humber River. Water and weather were perfect but Fisherman Roosevelt landed no salmon after trying all day. Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson got the party's one fish and Mr. Roosevelt issued a statement: "His unique specimen, while not the fattest known, excels all I have seen in my long experience. It is, in fact, the Adonis of salmon. Its regular features, its pink complexion and its rippling muscles make it a fit comrade for the General...
...after the marriage, newspapers ran a statement by Fred's doctor to the effect that "there is no reason why he [Snite] should not have a normal marriage and become the father of children." The press forgot that Snite and his bride were married by a Catholic priest, that the Catholic Church forbids the marriage of an impotent person...
...last June heavy-jowled Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, sick & tired of the red ink on the ledgers of his sprawling Consolidated Oil Corp., fixed his steely blue eyes on the brawling petroleum industry and made a statement for all to hear. Said he: "The price of [finished] products must go up or the price of raw material must go down...
...report, and by that time Harry Sinclair was hopping mad. For the first half of 1938 Consolidated had turned in a neat net of $4,000,341. But for the first half of 1939, it had a deficit of $872,671. With the report Harry Sinclair made another bitter statement: "I think the industry has served the public extremely well, but it is serving itself very badly...