Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Growled John Lewis: "Green's statement is characteristic of "what might be expected from any traitorous renegade...
...home in Lynchburg, back cracked Senator Glass, overflowing with indignation and invective: "Secretary Ickes has become a confirmed blackguard, saturated with hate for every member of Congress who voted against spendthrift practices of the New Deal authorities and against projecting the Government into every conceivable species of business. His statement concerning me is simply a wanton falsehood. I doubt if there is a member of Congress who has had less than I to do with so-called Government grants. . . . Horatius-at-the-Bridge stood and fought; he did not go 3,000 miles across the continent to lie about...
...That statement, though it expressed only an obvious truism about a remote contingency, did indeed cause chatter abroad. Britain and France loudly applauded the acknowledgment of a "Washington-London-Paris" axis. Germany officially laughed it off as electioneering talk by Mr. Roosevelt. Italy sneered at the idea of a Canadian invasion "by whom...
...Macy, James McCutcheon and James McCreery, Manhattan department stores, agreed to stop advertising as "silk" products which were not. Colt Shoes, Boston, promised to qualify the statement that Colt shoes are hand-lasted and keep feet healthy. Letellier-Phillips Paper Co. of New Orleans, the South's wastepaper dictator whose small competitors tattled, was ordered to cease and desist from maintaining a monopoly by intimidation and boycott of competitors...
...profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system of cinematic share cropping showed signs of becoming a definite trend. Agent Selznick announced that Carole Lombard and William Powell had agreed to act in pictures on the same sort of terms. Producer Sam Goldwyn followed suit with a statement that Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It With You), longtime collaborator of Columbia's Director Frank Capra, had agreed to write pictures for him on the same basis...