Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grounds that the Public Lands Committee had no authority to require his testimony. Mr. Sinclair intends to fight the case to the Supreme Court and get a final decision on the power of Congress to compel testimony before its committees. The indictment contains ten counts for refusal to answer ten questions. If found guilty in the course of a year or so, Mr. Sinclair will be liable to a fine of $100 to $1,000 or 30 days to a year in jail, or both. If each refusal to testify is considered as a separate offense he would be liable...
...from more criticism, however. F. Trubee Davison,* Assemblyman (i.e., State Representative) in New York, speaking before a political gathering of women, exclaimed: "And the cowardice of their [scandal investigators'] attacks reached its culmination when Mr. Vanderlip assailed the reputation of a dead President who could make no answer to those accusations. What Mr. Vanderlip needs is a punch in the jaw to bring him back to a realization of a proper sense of values." Mr. Vanderlip wrote young Mr. Davison a letter, saying: "I am an old friend and admirer of your father and knew you when you were...
Meantime Mr. Vanderlip's attorneys prepared and filed his answer to a $600,000 suit for libel and slander which the owners of the Marion Star had instituted against him on the allegation that he had said they paid much more for the paper than it was worth. The answer declared that Mr. Vanderlip's remarks repeating the rumor were justified by public interest, that they did no damage to the plaintiffs, that they had failed to contradict the rumor although it was current, and that the plaintiffs themselves added to the circulation of his remarks by publishing...
...Stanton's answer to my letter concerning college students and religion has misrepresented my position. How long has it been good policy to reply to a man by ignoring his main contention and attacking another...
...Perfectly hopeless" was the answer of the Reverend Theodore Gerald Soares when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the theology expressed in the recent speech here of Dr. John Reach Straton. "If religion must fight science in order to exist, then religion is dead. The modern theologian accepts the decisions of the expert getting the best help he can from the scientist. We make theology as we go along, because we do not want to have any dogmatism...