Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slichter complained that the Democratic statement contained "no yardstick to indicate how far credit should be eased." While agreeing that the tight money policy had retarded increases in production during the last nine months, Slichter said that corporations had received too much blame for price increases...
...East; the U.S. responded by warning the Kremlin that the U.S. would forcibly oppose the Communist volunteers, that any rocket attack against Western Europe would trigger instant U.S. air retaliation against the centers of Soviet power (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Now the State Department fired off a tough statement warning the unpredictable Khrushchev, in effect, that the U.S. would not let its ally Turkey and the bigger principle of collective security go down ; it would fight...
Hurriedly, the State Department put out an official apology. Wilson Flake, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, forestalled an official protest to Washington from the Ghana government by making a public statement that this was "an exceptional and isolated incident." President Eisenhower invited Gbedemah to breakfast with him and Vice President Nixon at the White House, put on an Eisenhower tour of the historic White House first floor, explained frankly that "little bits like that happen all over the place and you never know when they'll blow up or where...
...schoolchildren, brainy Bob has been a sort of hero-ever since the night he inadvertently stumbled into the field of education. "A couple of weeks ago," he explains, "I was sitting here bored as hell, wondering what to do next and rattling on, and I make this innocent statement-something like: 'Hey, kids, I'll do your homework for you if you need help. Got lots of time.' " The invitation was no sooner out than the station's dormant night switchboard lit up like an electric train...
Tass, Russian news agency, said it had been authorized to make the statement. This means in effect that it was issuing an official declaration of Soviet policy...