Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Come a Long Way. I had been previously unaware of the existence of this remarkable composition. I am very happy to possess the record and I hope that because of its musical and verbal distinction it is having a wide success. And I am particularly cheered by the chorus statement: But Baby, you've still got a long...
...page statement mailed to the House Un-American Activities Committee, Chafee cited as his main objection to the bill the lack of evidence that the world Communist movement "presents a clear and present danger to the existence a free American institutions...
...last statement lies Agar's real assessment of the "price" of American union; the fact that we must sacrifice ideals for realities to stay alive and united. His book also shows that "obstruction, evasion, and well-nigh intolerable slowness" are also necessary concomitants of the American political system. But lest the conditions he adds a reminder that "no matter how high one puts the price of federal union, it is small compared to the price which other continents have paid for disunion, and for the little national states in which parties of principle can live (or more often...
...faced with others who felt much the same. "One dislikes interference of this kind in matters between man and wife," said the Liberals' Clement Davies. "A disreputable transaction," rumbled Tory Winston Churchill. The government, refusing to publish its special commission's report, offered no answer beyond the statement that they "viewed with grave concern the danger which recognition [of Seretse] would cause." What His Majesty's ministers refused to admit was readily added by Seretse himself. "It has been firmly believed at home for a long time," he told reporters, "that there is pressure from the Union...
...serving a two-year prison term for alleged improper registering of funds received from the U.S., have sent no aid to Hungary for the past two years. The Hungarian message did not tend to change their minds. Said Dr. Paul Empie, executive director of the National Lutheran Council: "The statement is an obvious effort to show that they have a unique situation which we in the West are in no position to judge . . . But until our delegation can get there and confirm the needs and insure the proper use of the funds, we are hardly free to send additional money...