Word: answered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar finding that there is a war-minded U. S. minority was obtained last week by a Gallup poll. Question: "If it looks within the next few months as if England and France might be defeated, should the United States declare war on Germany and send our troops abroad?" Answer...
...Three. In New Orleans' Federal Court, slick, new-rich Seymour Weiss was convicted of using the mails to defraud, fined $2,000, sentenced to 30 months in prison. Convicted with him were Louisiana State University's ex-President James Monroe Smith, who must answer to 38 other charges and indictments; Dr. Smith's wife's nephew, John Emory Adams; and Louis C. LeSage, a previously suspended executive of Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana. All were charged with "selling" to the university $75,000 worth of furnishings which came from a hotel which the State had already...
...night of August 31, the eve of war, when diplomats were making frantic 59th-minute appeals, a wealthy Londoner telephoned his brother in the South of France. Would the brother and his wife like to use the Londoner's private plane to get home? No, thanks, came the answer. For the brother's wife, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, dislikes airplanes even if they belong to the King of England...
...various matters of interest. The Library Committee has charge of the special loan books. With its activities concentrated in the summer for the most part, the Missions Committee has charge of sending students to Labrador. Then there are also the Handbook Committee and the Information Committee, always ready to answer any questions about the University and about the surrounding towns
...schools and colleges opened, many a student and teacher, stranded in Europe, failed to answer the roll call. But not resourceful Miss Alice T. Scheh, a Brooklyn high-school stenography teacher, who had an adventure to report to her pupils when she faced them bright & early one morning this week. Having spent the summer traveling alone in Iran and Iraq, Miss Scheh arrived in Italy with a return steamship ticket and a flat purse. Her ship developed "engine trouble," failed to sail. So did other ships to which the Italian Line transferred her. Unable to get either passage or refund...