Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrested by Japanese military officials in Kalgan and held on a charge of spying, was Lieut. Colonel Christopher R. Spear, Military Attache of the British Embassy in China. Also arrested was Lieut. John Cooper who went to aid him. Later Lieut. Cooper was released after signing this statement...
...occasion to discuss all the various recommendations of the report. At each meeting queries and doubts on many points notably on the proposed abolition of the assistant professorship--seemed at least as evident as signs of approval. No specific motions, however, were entertained. Each meeting was prefaced with the statement that votes would not be taken; and particular requests for a vote were refused. The sole effort to evoke or appraise opinion as a whole consisted of the statement, made at each meeting, that failure to declare objection by letter would be taken as constituting approval of all the recommendations...
Repercussions of the recent controversy over the adoption of the new Faculty tenure system were seen in Professor Burbank's resignation. Although the noted public finance expert could not be reached for a statement, his resignation is generally interpreted as a protest against the new tenure scale, which he is understood to have opposed on the grounds that it will be detrimental to the best interests of the younger man in his department...
Practically every field of honest and, possibly, questionable, endeavor is included among the remaining vocations. Manufacturing, education, insurance and merchandising draw over five from the class. The usual amount of dry wit is present in one man's statement that he wants to be a beach-comber, and author's that he intends to become a "raconteur"-Dwight Fiske...
...Attorney General Murphy, who said: "I know nothing about [MRA] except what is good." But a majority of the Hon. sponsors were bandwagon jumpers and politicians whose attitude was, "Hell, it's not controversial, is it?" Republican Minority Leader Joseph William Martin Jr., who had signed a statement for the MRA meeting's program ("Moral Re-Armament is a great need of the day"), said: "Sure, I'm for Moral Re-Armament, whatever that is. It's just like being against...