Word: statements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young married woman five years out of college ... I disagree with the statement by Wellesley's President Clapp that men & women have the same function as citizens and as members of the community . . . The primary function of woman in society is that of mother and homemaker, [and] her education should not completely blind her to the ultimate career which she will follow .... It is in the mental attitude of the woman when she is faced with the problems of the child and the home that the shortcomings of the college curriculum show up plainest. Her "broadened" mind is humiliated...
Hard-bitten General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had taken the witness stand before the tense audience in the House Armed Services Committee room. Infantryman Bradley began to read his statement, which he had handwritten without help from public-relations experts, in his quarters at Fort Myer...
...Balance of the Bomb. When Omar Bradley finished his biting, indignant statement there was stunned silence in the committee room. In charging head down into the middle of the scrimmage he had given a final, climactic exhibition of the unseemly personal antagonisms which had split the nation's military chiefs. From a military standpoint he had all but blasted the Navy admirals' case. And before the week was out, torpedoed by the testimony of other non-Navy men, the Navy's arguments were little more than just afloat...
...faculty and students of St. Benedict's in a statement signed by the secretary of the School, said last night; "Many of us have at one time or another been associated with Jesuit institutions, and know that their policies of late are motivated more by political expediency than by Christian charity...
Archishop Cushing declined to comment on this statement last night, and Father MeEleney could not be reached...