Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finally turned aside to flay its critics. Statistician Roger Babson who had declared that Congress had fiddled like Nero while the stock-market broke, who had urged it to "stop bickering, adjourn and stay adjourned," was loudly denounced by Senator Borah. Cried the Idaho Senator: ". . . Utterly false and malicious statement! Who is this Babson? A man serving special interests, who has no responsibility, who could not carry a precinct and yet who dares tell Senators to abandon their duty...
...more interest than his Cuban mission for low-duty sugar men, the committee found his statement of clients and fees. His income, he said was close to $150,000 per year, to which the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. contributed $25,000, the Burlington and Northern Pacific Railroads $20,000, the Baltimore & Ohio $10,000, United Fruit Co. $15,000 (to prevent a tariff on bananas), the Chesapeake & Ohio and Hocking Valley $12,000, the Cuban Embassy...
Just what he meant by that he did not explain. His statement for the printed press was handed out?and mailed broadcast to smalltown editors throughout the land?by his Manhattan office. "Railroaded to jail. . . . Sins I have not committed. . . . A man of honor and integrity," were some of the things it said. Also...
...ostensibly on a motor trip when he summoned General Primo de Rivera to supreme power. It might barely be that the King now fancied he could oust Primo for Alba. After much telegraphing to the Royal Hunting Lodge, the blunt, obese Dictator issued a personal and arrestingly gracious statement...
...WILL APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD MAKE IT CONVENIENT TO ATTEND A SMALL CONFERENCE IN MY OFFICE ON THURSDAY MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK TO DISCUSS MATTERS CONNECTED WITH MY STATEMENT OF LAST SATURDAY...