Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bearing on the case might be obtained, the committee issued a subpoena for Mally S. Daugherty, brother of the Attorney General, to come before it bringing certain books and papers. He refused. Meanwhile, the Attorney General resigned. Shortly afterwards, the Senate ordered Mai Daugherty arrested for failing to answer its subpoena. The Southern District Court of Ohio held that he was unlawfully arrested and discharged him. The Government took an appeal to the Supreme Court...
...Foundation cabled to Lord Cecil, informed him of the award, received the answer: "Deeply gratified by award . . . which gladly accept." It was then given out that he would arrive in Manhattan in time for a dinner on Dec. 28, birthday of Woodrow Wilson, at which the award is to be presented to him. Lady Cecil, a daughter of the late Earl of Durham, is to accompany...
...Vienna, Karl Jaworek faced judge and jury to answer for attempting the assassination of ex-Chancellor Ignaz Seipel (TIME, June 9). To the court was read a penitent letter from the accused to his victim. The minimum sentence is usually five years hard labor...
...editors asked of excitable Henrik Willem Van Loon, whilom college professor. Said he : "It is really quite useless, my writing upon this subject. Whenever I open my mouth and say something about football, the answering chorus is, 'Oh well, but how could we expect a poor foreigner to under stand our national game?' ... I have nothing against the stadia (or stadiums or stadiumses, or whatever you wish to call them in an un-Greek age). This is a free world. Go ahead and build all the stadiums and hooch-factories and bawdey-houses you wish, but do not build them...
...earnest souls in Western colleges who are reported to be praying for Harvard's spiritual welfare the news that Appleton Chapel is to be reserved wholly for members of the University next Sunday must come as a welcome answer to their pleadings. But to the student who has found a cloak-room jam at every door of the Chapel whenever Dr. Fosdick was to speak the announcement comes rather as evidence of a true spirit of brotherhood among University authorities. Perhaps the only persons to feel disgruntled are those residents of Cambridge who have so far forgotten their college habits...