Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe's chancelleries last August: Fish's arrival in Oslo in the personal airplane of Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Fish's proposal to the Inter-Parliamentary Union of a 30-day armistice for the "four great powers" to settle European problems; Fish's statement that Germany's claims are "just." Mr. Woodrum passed over Mr. Fish's modest willingness, expressed in Berlin, to arbitrate the Danzig dispute personally...
...Britain's last war from Whitehall, listened to the Prime Minister's answer to Führer Hitler, then summoned his Council of Action for Peace to a closed meeting. After a 40-minute speech by Mr. Lloyd George the Council found the Prime Minister's statement "quite inadequate," called upon the Government to draw up a fuller statement of Britain's war aims...
Thus, writes Anonymous, the statement that the moon in Paris "sheds its glorious light here as in the States" is supposed to mean "An advance is planned for the morrow." Other Anonymous decodings...
Last week she shocked San Francisco by losing her chemise: filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, swore her assets were $8,067, liabilities $64,631. Trouble was, she said, that her gross was big and her net was little. As an example she offered her 1937 earnings statement: gross...
...first public statement as head of the American Civilization Plan, Malone paid credit to his predecessors, Howard M. Jones, professor of English, and Dean Buck, and to Smith, the ranking Counselor, for their parts in the establishment of the program...