Word: statements
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Charge White House Trickery, yammered the Republican Pittsburgh Courier. Roosevelt Charged With Trickery in Announcing Jim Crow Army Policy, shrilled the Kansas City Call. Along with the War Department's statement many a paper printed the demands made on President Roosevelt fortnight ago by his White House visitors: Secretary Walter White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; President A. Philip Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters' union; T. Arnold Hill, an assistant in the N. Y. A. Division for Negro Affairs. For the Army's solution of The Problem had brusquely rejected...
...leaders proof of that point was less important last week than establishing the equality of the races in the U. S.'s new Army. So concerned were they with the Jim Crow issue that they subordinated another point, somewhat less than frank, in the War Department's statement...
...York Times last week printed an unqualified statement that Royal Dutch-Shell and a Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. subsidiary had virtually agreed, under pressure, to supply Japan with 40% of her oil needs for the next six months out of their Netherlands East Indies wells. The pressure was presumed to have come from The Netherlands East Indies Government. East Indian oil is a politically inflammable commodity. It was not strange that the U. S. State Department professed ignorance of any such deal, that "authoritative British sources" hastened to announce that Britain had cornered the entire Netherlands East Indies supply...
...first onslaughts of criticism, lawsuits, public investigation by people to whom the unfamiliar monster was "a conspiracy, a dark plot born in greed."* Greedy men exist, observes Nevins, but they seldom pile up colossal fortunes. Rockefeller himself said that his great aim was "achievement," and, says Biographer Nevins, "the statement was true." He adds: "We must not forget that Rockefeller began to give as soon as he began to earn...
...World In Flames (Paramount) is prefaced with the statement that it is a picture of the struggle of a free people against a colossus of death. Thereafter it slips into a staccato review of political and diplomatic events from 1929 to 1940 with a string of old newsreel clips. Because many of the shots have been cut to the point where the effect is almost kaleidoscopic, the film loses the nostalgic force of a family album, which is always an attraction in resurrections of old movie scenes. But Paramount intended something else. It wanted to show the inevitable drift toward...