Word: answer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last winter Mr. Bingham recommended the immediate erection of a new stadium or the enlargement of the present plant as the logical answer to the question raised by the condemnation of the old wooden seats. A vote of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers rejected this proposition and forced the falling back on an expedient device. The remedy adopted will be, like its motivating force, one of expediency...
...will the Congress work with Hoover?" The question was and is often asked. An inkling of an answer appeared last week while the House Appropriations Committee was considering the Budget Bureau's figures for running the Department of Commerce next year. As a rule, if Congressmen have fault to find with Budget estimates it is that they are too large. But at this hearing, the Congressmen listened respectfully to Director Julius Klein of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Mr. Klein protested that the money set down for his Bureau in the Budget was too small. "The situation...
...build for mankind, I build for you." Thus did Composer Bloch quote from Walt Whitman on the flyleaf of his score. Then for the first movement, under the head "1620," come sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come in the second movement dated for the Civil War. "I hear America singing" is the marking on the score and what Bloch hears he repeats-snatches...
...trouble you to let me know the answer to the above question, and if Governor Smith did not receive the largest popular vote, except for Mr. Hoover, will you please state who did and what the figures as to the votes were...
Especially significant was Inspector Hoover's recommendation that admiralty laws be amended reducing the amount of salvage that may be claimed by masters of ships which answer another's SOS. Inspector Hoover pictured the reluctance of a captain in time of peril to incur the expense of salvage. "If the amount was reduced, the master of a ship in distress would not hesitate too long before asking for help...