Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court integration order by calling out his National Guard to "prevent violence" in a city where none existed. What the National Guard was really being used for was to bar the nine Negro children from Central High. Making each new step more drastic than his last, Faubus made inflammatory statement after inflammatory statement. He called off the National Guard in response to an injunction issued against him by U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies, spurning Judge Davies' alternative offer: to change the National Guard's orders so that the militia would uphold-rather than defy-law and order...
...much in evidence during Saud's visit, but sailors from a visiting Soviet cruiser and destroyer filled Damascus' streets. As if he had not seen them, Saud issued a statement that "Syria cannot possibly be a cause of threat to any of her neighbors" (a public rebuke to Dulles), and left for home. Damascus' semiofficial Al Akhbar hailed the visit as "a new victory for Arab nationalism and a severe blow to imperialist politics." But in the kind of parting gesture Arabs make so much of, Saud shook hands with President Kuwatly, then before getting into...
Explaining the loophole. Agriculture could muster only a lame statement that it "did not want to regiment the U.S. farmer any more than necessary." As usual, the Agriculture Department closed the barn-door-sized loophole after the Government till had been tapped. In the next crop year, farmers who put 25 acres into the soil bank will not get price supports on more than 75 acres of total crops. But few farmers are seriously worried. Though the great sorghum game is over, farmers are sure that when the time comes there will be plenty of other loopholes to shovel surpluses...
...This statement closely paralled the one made by the Cornell Athletic Association a few months earlier which said that "in the interests of good taste and public safety" the use of alcoholic beverages would be prohibited at Schoellkopf Field...
...publication has appeared on the Harvard scene, Fortnightly, which according to the "Statement of Purpose" has been launched "because of our frustration as Harvard conservatives." These people are troubled by the liberal attitudes displayed "at the very institution of this country most famous for its intellectual vigor, where ideas and viewpoints in other fields are subjected to such fair and thoroughgoing scrutiny." The rest of the magazine is mostly filled with reprints. The purpose of the editors is made more clear by this statement of belief purpose, "that of maintaining a kind of intangible individualism and certainly a dominant...