Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussion of Aberdeen-Angus cattle in which the breed is described as the "most upstart of all U. S. cattle breeds." If by this phrase the writer meant that the Aberdeen-Angus was the latest of the recognized beef breeds to become established in the U. S., the statement is true; but so far as concerns Scotland, which is the birthplace of the breed, there are legal documents to show that there were black polled cattle in Aberdeenshire over 400 years ago, in 1523 (Macdonald & Sinclair's "History of Aberdeen-Angus Cattle," 1910 edition...
...confusing was this mélange that White House Secretary Stephen Early afterwards undertook to clarify it. In doing so, he volunteered the most revealing statement yet made on the subject. The President, said Mr. Early, has not decided whether to expand Rearmament at all. This amounted to saying that U. S. citizens lately have been gazing at nothing but a huge trial balloon. Not even this, however, was the most astonishing thing in the Administration's Rearmament fuss...
...Roman Catholic Church, which possesses crushing machinery to deal with heretical or inconvenient priests. Lately Father Coughlin has been abusing Jews. Last week the nation's most popular and liberal Cardinal, Chicago's George William Mundelein, fresh from a visit to the Vatican, issued a statement over the radio that "Father Coughlin is not authorized to speak for the Catholic Church, nor does he represent the doctrine or sentiments of the Church." Retorted Father Coughlin: "No priest . . . no bishop . . . and no Cardinal speaks for the whole Church. Only the Pope speaks for the Church...
...This statement was promptly smeared by a member of the Doom household as an "invention," but Ken's Editor Arnold Gingrich insisted the "interview" was authentic. It first appeared in the September 30 issue of Voilà, a Paris weekly that specializes in nude pictures and pornographic reporting. Mr. Gingrich said he could not get permission to print the real name of Author "Burckhardt," who was reported by Ken's Paris agents to be "something of a dilettante who hobnobs with the royal bunch...
...Stark statement made many scientists thoroughly angry. They formed a committee, chose as its spokesman "Papa Franz'' Boas, 80-year-old Columbia University anthropologist. Papa Franz, a Jew of German birth, has been attacking German racial theories for a quarter-century, and after the rise of the Third Reich his books were burned at Kiel. The Boas committee drew up a counter-manifesto condemning the Stark statement from beginning to end, decrying the "ruthless political censorship'' which is crippling science in Germany...