Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tribal & Local. After two months of civil war, he still refuses to say that he will not seek reelection, points only to his Premier's statement of last May that his government will not press this goal. "Since the crisis began," says a Beirut observer, "Chamoun has not said one word to his people. He talks only to foreign diplomats and foreign newsmen." He has declined to call Parliament into session; he has rejected repeated rebel - and third force - offers to compromise. He insisted last week that he has "a substantial majority in the country...
Fortnight ago, when Wolfson no longer owned any American Motors stock, Alexander Rittmaster, a business associate who Wolfson once said "speaks for me," told the New York Times that Wolfson had sold a quarter of the shares, still had 300,000 to go. Another Wolfson associate got out a statement the same day saying that Wolfson confirmed this. The news knocked the price of A.M.C. stock down 1⅛ points to 11⅝, and about 50,000 shares were bought for Wolfson accounts to help cover their short positions before the SEC got its court order...
...Friendship. Then, in an even, quiet, almost confidential tone that rang with a New Hampshireman's twang, Adams began reading from a prepared statement. "I have tried, throughout my service in the Government of the United States, to treat everyone courteously and to perform any requests which have been made of me efficiently and in accordance with the rules which I believe pertain to my particular activity." His voice sharpened, and his wide-set blue eyes darted up and raked the faces of the seven subcommittee members: "Is there any member of this committee who has not made...
President Eisenhower led the U.S. protest against the Kremlin's execution of Hungarian Revolutionaries Imre Nagy, Pal Maleter and two comrades (see FOREIGN NEWS) with his strongest anti-Communist statement since Budapest. "I cannot think of any incident that could have, and has, more shocked the civilized world," said he at his press conference. "It is clear evidence that the intent of the Soviets is to pursue their own policies of terror and intimidation to bring about complete subservience to their will. I think there is no incident that should have more alerted the free world to the lack...
Steel specialists, such as Editor Tom Campbell of Iron Age, took President Hood's statement to mean simply that Big Steel, traditionally the industry leader in raising prices, does not intend to hike its prices July 1 but will do so eventually. Steelmen are awaiting an announcement this week of the Consumer Price Index to tell them how great a cost-of-living increase they will have to add to their contract wage boosts...