Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock answer to criticisms of the American governmental system is that "it works." Inquiry is seldom carried to the point of how much better it might work if differently constructed, or how long it would continue to work if subjected to a strain such as European governments are frequently called upon to resist. In the June number of Harper's Harold T. Laski, English student of Political Science, both examines the practical workings of the American political mechanism and raises the question of its adaptability to the unprecedented strains which the future is liable to bring forth...
...answer to John H. Hammond Jr. [TIME, May 7] is that he should read Whistler's "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies," and see how utterly impossible it is for a police official to appreciate...
...substance had been prepared by the Board of Bishops but whose clear and strident phraseology was in large part his own. In this, there was a reprimand that applied to Dr. Sloan and exemplified the admirable Methodist point of view on the evolution bugaboo: "If the preacher assumes to answer every adversary of Christianity he will make the place a battlefield instead of a sheepfold...
Manager Van Namee soon assembled a squad of polite gentlemen and young ladies to write letters, answer telephones, receive callers. Soon monster posters of the Candidate, which made him look more like an advertisement for cold cream and collars than like a Presidential aspirant, were hung upon the walls. Typical of the conversation which buzzed in the Van Namee offices was a spirited debate over when the brown derby hats should be handed out to the convention delegates, before or after the nomination...
...went the game last fortnight. But after May i, the answer was a different one. The resignation of Col. White took effect that day. Aged 71, having served as U. S. Treasurer since 1921, Col. White was going to be president of the newly formed Southern Mortgage Guaranty Corp. of Chattanooga, Tenn. People in Washington knew that Chattanooga was gaining a gallant citizen. Col. White was North Dakota's Governor in 1901-1905. He commanded an infantry regiment...