Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem in contempt which the Senate left behind was settled last week by a jury of eight men, four women. Col. Robert Wright Stewart, chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, was acquitted of contempt charges arising from his refusal to answer questions put to him by the Senate Committee on Public Lands...
...trial lasted two weeks. Justice Fredrick Lincoln Siddons of the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled against Mr. Stewart on nearly every legal point. The jury was instructed that it had only to decide whether or not Mr. Stewart had appeared before the Senate committee and refused to answer pertinent questions. After 21 hours, the jury decided that he had not and hence he was not guilty...
Since dictators are proverbially above honor, dueling, and stooping to answer open letters, General Primo de Rivera contented himself, last week, with observing to reporters: "My position does not permit me to be at the disposition of persons who, thinking themselves damaged by my statements, would seek to involve me in a personal dispute...
...Tientsin's former militarist masters the last to evacuate was blunt, bearish Marshal Chang* Tsung-chang, notorious during the present Civil War for his ruthless cruelty (TIME, March 7, 1927). As Chang's armored train pulled out for Manchuria, he growled to correspondents: "I won't answer questions! How should I know how many men I've got left, or how much money I've got left, or how many wives I've got left...
...have been able to give you but a small reminder of our questionable press conditions; there is little doubt that they merit intelligent alteration. But how to alter them? One answer is, of course censorship and fascist methods...