Word: answer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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International. The collection of complaints had been piling up at the State Department for several weeks. When Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison first asked how many had been received, he received the answer: "About a dozen." He pressed for more definite information. First an erroneous figure of 38 protesting nations was given out. Then Chairman Reed Smoot of the Finance Committee was jockeyed into the necessity of revealing the true list. Some were complaints made by foreign governments as governments; others, merely the transmission of private commercial protests through governmental channels...
...landed in Kingston, Jamaica, sailed Cuba-ward that night on a dirty native fishing boat under the eyes of the Spanish patrol which was scouring the Caribbean. Flat on his back against a gunwale, Carrier Rowan heard a Spaniard swagger alongside shouting queries; heard his pilot's lazy answer, the Spaniard's satisfied grunt...
...Endeavorers conducted their 32nd International conference. As is usual with meetings of this kind, the young people listened to speeches and passed resolutions prepared by adult leaders. They resolved: 1) to uphold the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty; 2) to uphold Prohibition. These resolutions were sent as an answer to President Hoover's message of "cordial greetings . . . deep appreciation." In part they said: "[The delegates] send you the assurance of their affectionate regard and pledge their loyalty in the following words...
...Morrison in another Cessna at Los Angeles. At Minneapolis Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland kept the Cessna Miss Minneapolis up for 150 hrs., when a broken valve forced them down. At Roosevelt Field, L. I., Viola Gentry, flying cashier, and Jack Ashcraft, went up in the Cabinair biplane The Answer, after only one practice flight. They unexpectedly ran out of gas after 10 hrs., tried to land through a mist, crashed. Ashcraft was killed, Miss Gentry badly hurt. Her first and continuous cries after the smash were for "Bill." "Bill" was William Ulbrich, at whose mother's Mineola home...
...Senor Uzcudun are richer by $72,500 each, or 40% of the total proceeds. Herr Schmeling is richer by the title, "Champion of Europe," which awkward Senor Uzcudun previously held in a vague way. Fight patrons are richer only by the semi-satisfaction of a hope, the half-answer of a question...