Word: statement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This probably seems like a strange statement for Bach and Handel are almost in the old favors ite class. However, the popularity of Bach's keyboard music and Handel's Messiah has done as much to shut their other works off from the public as it has to make their names great. For example, of the Bach works which the Boston Symphony has done in the Friday and Saturday series them--two were arrangements of organ works and the other was the first performance in that series of the Sixth Brandcuburg Concerto...
Driving from Palo Alto to San Francisco, to speak at a dinner of Young Republicans, ex-President Herbert Hoover hurriedly drafted a statement that turned out to be far more effective than the laboriously rewritten speeches that he polishes when he has time. "Civilization has struck a new low with the Communists' attack on peaceful Finland. It is a sad day to every decent and righteous man and woman in the world. We are back to the morals and butchery of Genghis Khan...
...Tabouis recanted. Last year, on the eve of a visit to Paris by Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Foreign Minister Lord Halifax, Tabouis wrote that they had decided to give Germany the French island of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa. Next day she retracted her statement. To her denial L'Oeuvre's board of editors added a note in angry capitals: "IT IS DESIRABLE THAT FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION SHOULD NOT LET ITSELF BE TROUBLED BY RUMORS SPRINGING ENTIRELY FROM PURE FANTASY...
From the Washington front, another gun began firing from an unsuspected emplacement. For probably the first time in his checkered career Cyrus Eaton found he had old, reforming Senator George Norris on his side. "The Power Trust." said the frail Senator in a prepared statement, "is caught at its old tricks. ... It happens again that the holding company is robbing its own subsidiaries, in order to enrich itself." Rejoined Willkie: "Completely and absolutely false." Back came George Norris with another blast to the effect that the cost of the stock deal would be reflected in electric rates paid by Michigan...
...last week the Eaton-Norris army had slowed its firing, and Mr. Willkie's patience had been exhausted. To the Sunday papers he sent a statement...