Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who think "Well, that's all we've got time for" is wrong, I would venture a more modest statement: even regarding "got" as perfectly correct and respectable, consideration of the brevity of one's span of life inclines one to observe that most of us simply haven't (omit "got" please) time for such wasteful locutions. I'd rather be wrong than redundant...
With that, McClellan ordered a subpoena served on Jimmy ("Mr. Hoffa will be back again") and then read off a damning five-page statement that summed up, for the present at least, the sordid career of one of the most powerful labor leaders in the U.S. Some key items in the committee's indictment: ¶ Hoffa borrowed money-about $90,000, all told-from a variety of union business agents, a truck owner who employed Teamsters, and Teamster officials. He rarely paid interest, signed notes or offered collateral. In most cases there was no evidence that the payments...
Courts & Credibility. More astonishing than the committee's blockbuster statement was its closing-hour suggestion that Extortionist Dio provided Hoffa with secret miniature recording devices as well as recording experts. The machines, so ran the implication, may have been worn by witnesses who appeared at a grand-jury session during an investigation of Hoffa in Michigan. Afterwards, had the devices been so used, the witnesses would have carried out complete recordings of the proceedings...
...Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, a business-minded Texan, took the floor in Argentina's Chamber of Deputies last week with the official statement of U.S. policy at the Buenos Aires Economic Conference. The policy emerged mostly as a clearly reasoned plug for the kind of development job private capital and U.S. aid have been doing in Latin America, and a polite rejection of hopeful Latin American suggestions for more lavish U.S. handouts. But wedged in the middle was a mild shocker. "Military expenditures," warned the Secretary, "by their very nature act as a brake on rising living standards...
Said the Hong Kong Standard: "This statement, if it genuinely reflects the viewpoint of the Liu-Peng faction, offers an explanation for their drastic turn against Mao. If they believe that the pursuit of Mao's policies would bring about the collapse of Communist rule in China, the need for self-preservation left them no alternative but to rise up against Mao and either force him to renounce his policy or else wrest control of the party from...