Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French Morocco. At 1:30 a. m. Madrid suddenly came through with a seven-word official statement: "The Government is master of the situation." These words were the first intimation to the outside world that revolt had broken out in Spain...
...Silvermine Guild of Artists, a 16-year-old organization whose 310 members include Columnist Westbrook Pegler as well as John Steuart Curry, Novelist Ursula Parrott as well as Artist John Vassos. Most important exhibition this year at the Silvermine Gallery were 21 murals of a social statement show, which is now on tour, most of them explosive, crowded canvases of somewhat labored satire, like James Daugherty's It's Fun to Be Neutral, or solemn, like Howard Hildebrandt's Construction of the Merritt Parkway. Happier and more decorative were John Vassos' God Bless Our Home...
...said he had had various of his administrative agencies draw up a statement of the South's economic handicap and shortcomings. He wanted the 23 Southern gentlemen to examine and discuss this, restate it if they liked until it represented "the South's own best thought." Then he would present it to the Congress. To guide the Southern gentlemen's deliberations he detailed Lowell Mellett, director of his National Emergency Council...
Last week, Reporter Johnston, who does his own legwork and his own checking, was surprised but not fazed by reactions to his story. From the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he was undergoing treatment for a stomach ulcer, the President's son authorized the statement that he "naturally is indignant over certain outright misrepresentations . . . he has requested his attorneys to consider the matter for future conference." Mr. Johnston's comment was: "Let 'em sue. I have only scratched the surface on Jimmy." Young Roosevelt as a whiskey insurance man and Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
...Francisco last week lights blazed brightly all night in the building occupied by Amadeo Peter Giannini's giant Bank of America. The bank's 493 branch managers were telephoning in reports, and statisticians were preparing to issue Bank of America's six-month financial statement. Few days before, six major Los Angeles banks, pleading hard times, cut their maximum interest rates on time and savings deposits from 2% to 1½%, but Mr. Giannini swore up & down he would not cut his. "A. P." did not need to, he boasted, for Bank of America was making...