Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Secretary Mellon said, in effect, to Congress: " Will you give a bonus to 4,000,000 veterans or will you cut the income taxes of 14,000,000 people?" Any politician's answer would be obvious were it not for the fact that as voters and lobbyists the bonus advocates have a much better organization than the taxpayer. But Mr. Mellon spoke loud enough for the public as well as Congress to hear. Much depends on the public's reaction. If the taxpayers shout louder than the bonus advocates, there may be no bonus...
...deaths of Lords Kitchener and Fisher in order to attack them, it is abundantly clear that he has written a fair, searching and important factual narrative on the causes which made the Dardanelles campaign necessary, and on the ofcial conduct of that ill-fated venture. Mr. Churchill might well answer his critics that if historians had refrained throughout the ages to write of Philip of Macedon, the first great military strategist, because he was dead, nothing would now be known...
Certainly the Conservative party has much to answer for. Apart from its new fiscal policy it is sure to be attacked for its weakness in handling the European situation. "Tranquility" has meant little else but indecision and procrastination...
...Catholic, but neither-- thank God--am I a Mason, and hence, I think, I am very advantageously placed for replying to the preposterous emission in your Friday issue. Oddly enough your correspondent seems to have hit upon the answer to his own conundrum, without, of course, being able to recognize it when he saw it. If Catholics are sportsmen enough to become members or captains of the athletic teams, and gentlemen enough to be made class-day marshals, they are certain of a warm standing-welcome from all their (normal) fellow undergraduates. While as far as the faculty are concerned...
...have banded together and have even a club: I ask you to be frank--let us look at it from a different angle--let it be a Catholic University, asking you would these honors and privileges be given men of Protestant faith and I know positively your answer would be "no"; you say I am narrow; have I not studied the Roman church for centuries past: is the Roman church of Mexico any different from the church here? isn't its purposes the same it being a question of numerical strength, and their arrogance being in proportion to that strength...