Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pursuit of lesser violators of the law . . . has been strangely indifferent and listless in the case of Browder. . . . Even Browder must be surprised, perhaps slightly contemptuous. . . ." Thereupon a spokesman for Frank Murphy replied: "It obviously seems to be a curious coincidence that the Republican National Committee issues a statement tonight. . . . The facts are that the department has been actively preparing this case and others . . . and that it expects decisive action in a few hours...
...heels of Mr. Churchill's statement, a flash came from Germany that Lieutenant Commander Günther Prien and the boyish crew of his U-boat, safely back at Kiel, were congratulated by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder for smiting not only Royal Oak but also Repulse. A. Hitler sent his personal plane, Grenzmark, to fetch them to Berlin for an ovation in which Propaganda Minister Goebbels managed to share the spotlight...
Lord Linlithgow issued a statement in Delhi. It was in answer to demands from Mahatma Gandhi's Indian National Congress Party as to what was going to happen to India during the war. Was India's dominion status a war aim? Dominion status, replied Lord Linlithgow, was certainly an aim of His Majesty's Government-after the war. In London, the Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India, bade Indians meanwhile to "strive after that agreement among themselves without which they will surely fail to achieve that unity which is an essential of the nationhood...
...indefiniteness of the Bolles findings brings to mind the statement made by Mr. Meikleham who was for many years a race official at New London. He said that the choice of any one type of crew man for a boat was almost entirely a matter of contemporary style, and that the best crew man did not necessarily have to confine himself to any particular build. His knowledge was based not only on his long association with crew but upon the fact that while he was a Captain of the Columbia crew he helped to nurse the sport...
With clarity and force the Student Council has raised its voice against the effects of the Administration's present tenure policy. In its statement Tuesday night, the Council decried the inflexibility inherent in the present "up-or-out" hiring and firing rule. And it expressed the fear in the hearts of many teachers and more undergraduates when it noted that "standards of undergraduate teaching are seriously threatened...