Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiscal 1938's statement, compared to last year's, looked like this (in millions of dollars...
...State's big Democrats plenty to talk about as they rode to Senator Copeland's funeral, held at his rambling white home in peaceful Suffern. After the funeral Herbert Lehman returned to his summer place at nearby Purchase, picked up the telephone, dictated a 25-word statement to his secretary in Albany: "If my party desires me to be a candidate for the office of U. S. Senator to succeed Senator Copeland, I will accept the nomination." Some leaders rejoiced, others fumed. Franklin Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley got together for a hasty conference. But such...
...independently seeking to reseat the Duke on the throne, bases his case on the claim that the 1936 Abdication Act, while passed by Parliament, is illegal because it was not a mandate from the people. Fortnight ago, however, his cause received its first legal setback. Founder Elton's statement of claim that the Act was "illegitimate" was refused a hearing on the grounds that it was not on the regular schedule of cases...
...Therefore, when a guesser averages eight, seven or even six hits over a long run, Rhine claims that these scores are high enough to rule out chance. Some of his opponents have claimed that he does not know the mathematics of probability well enough to make such a statement. Perhaps, they hint, if two enormous stacks of ESP cards were matched against each other, one card after another, an average of six or seven hits out of 25 might come...
...American Co., discussed the question of whether the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 needed any revision. Mr. Douglas said no; the magnates said yes. But the two got along well enough for SEC to announce progress toward "a harmonious relationship." Few days later, Chairman Douglas published a statement in The Annalist offering SEC's help in whatever utility recapitalizations may soon be necessary to release $432,000,000 in accumulated unpaid preferred dividends. Finally, though the Senate took Franklin Roosevelt's advice and voted down the suggestion that PWA be prohibited from further building of power...