Word: answer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer to a question as to his opinion of the famed Boston censorship, Mr. Hodge expressed himself as being heartily in favor of it. "The theatre is a place for everybody, and so I think only things should be shown to which you could take a young sister. There may be plays of value to mature people which will be lost by this, but there is a place for everything, and the stage is primarily a source of amusement for all ages...
...private telephone connecting the State Department with his study in New York or Magnolia, Colonel House communicated suggestions and advice to President and Cabinet. To him rather than to the accredited diplomats turned Allied statesmen who wished Wilson's ear. "Balfour, speaking for the British Government, could get an answer from President Wilson, if necessary, within a few hours," by cabling directly to Colonel House in New York in a special British Government code...
...long letter about it all to Dr. Work, the Republican National Chairman. To make sure Dr. Work got the letter, Mr. Raskob sent it by two members of his staff from Manhattan to Washington. They called on Dr. Work in person, presented it, asked if there was an answer...
...another envelope, addressed to Herbert Hoover. At the latter's campaign house, they were received by Bradley D. Nash, the number-two secretary, a cheerful young gentleman (Harvard) with nice manners. Mr. Nash was embarrassed and courteous but, of course, Mr. Raskob's emissaries left without any answer from Mr. Nash's chief...
...machine have affected civilization; just what the possibilities are of self-destruction, "decline," as compared with perpetuity?these are questions for a modern Aristotle with "all knowledge" in his mastermind. But all knowledge having expanded beyond the scope of one mind, Editor Beard has assembled 17 minds to answer the riddle. Their guesses carry the weight of authority, for their names read like an honor roll of intelligentsia...