Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nuisance but a passionate delight. He knows the first name (and even the children's names) of nearly every person in Kentucky of voting age-not just because it's good political business, but because he likes to know. To him speechmaking is no grave statement of solemn issues, but a chance to play his own tune on the great harp of an audience. And a harp is what his audience becomes. So infectious is his gifted gab that the soberest observers have found themselves swaying to the roll of it, while the Chandler fans yell "Tell...
...have been following the correspondence upon war aims in your columns with considerable attention. In many respects it recalls the war aims controversy of 1917-18 when the Crewe House [propaganda] organization did its unsuccessful best to extract from the foreign office a precise statement of what the country was fighting for (see Sir Campbell Stuart's Secrets of Crewe House). No such statment was ever produced, and the Great War came to a ragged end in mutual accusations of broken promises and double crossing...
Since the Viceroy's voice in the Indian Government is more powerful than the votes of all legislators put together, his statement committed the vast subcontinent to war. This fact was appreciated by all, but from the Indians present came no sign of enthusiasm. It was only when His Excellency unexpectedly announced that the grave political question of all-India federation, which virtually all shades of Indian opinion had opposed for different reasons, would be shelved for the duration of the war that the Indian members rose and cheered the Viceroy with such zeal that the Assembly...
...Berlin Admiral Raeder was reported to have demanded (apparently to gain verisimilitude) that U. S. Naval Attache Commander Albert E. Schrader sign a statement acknowledging receipt of the warning. Asked for the source of the information, Admiral Raeder's office replied: "Ask Britain-we have done our duty by giving the warning. It is up to Britain to explain...
...Will not our national unity be augmented by a statement from our President that for a third term he will not choose...