Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a high degree of satisfaction that I, with many another Stanfordite, read of Secretary-President Wilbur's work in TIME, Dec. 9. Can one statement in particular, ". . . bring to his job an attitude of mind different from the general run of office holders," be considered as TIME'S apology for calling Secretary Wilbur President Hoover's "prime 'yes' man" (TIME, March...
...attacks" had hurt the company although its earnings for this year would be as large as during 1928. Yet canny Londoners, awaiting the auditor's report, were inclined to believe Viscount St. Davids' attack upon his brother had been more than a family squabble. For Lord Kylsant's official statement included the phrases: "write off . . . for estimated shrinkage (under present conditions in heavy British industries) of investments in other than shipping companies." These "investments" were guessed to be the base of Viscount St. Davids' anger, were seen to be unwise and unwarranted uses...
...Protestant leader made answer. Of representative Protestant journals, only the Christian Herald took notice of the Pope's statement. Editor Stanley High quoted it, made no comment. Said an editor of the Protestant Episcopal Churchman: "Only the Protestant editors are getting more and more exhausted...
...Other Piggott campaigning methods included a "Sermon Against Booze" on each pay statement. Typical of these was: "To the married man who thinks he cannot get along without his drinks the following is suggested as a solution to the bondage of the habit: "1. Start a saloon in your own house. "2. Be the only customer and you will have no license to pay. Give your wife $2 to buy a gallon of whiskey and remember that there are 69 drinks to the gallon. "3. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife. By the time the first gallon...
...week in the predicament of planning to move and having no place to go. Since last winter it has been understood that a new Metropolitan opera house would be the centre of a midtown development projected by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (TIME, Dec. 31). But last week a joint statement issued by Realtor Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked to believe that, after years of inaction, the Metropolitan...