Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this juncture, a remarkable personality came to the fore. Ask a dozen political women what woman is most fitted to be President of the U. S. and six will answer: Carrie Chapman Catt. She put the 19th Amendment into the Constitution. This widow of an Iowa newspaperman has probably presided over more congregations of women, has composed more intra-sex quarrels, than any other contemporary...
...Caillaux did not answer at once. On two occasions, he received U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Garrard B. Winston (on one occasion accompanied by U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick) but, for the most part, he shut himself up in his departmental office and refused to be seen. Then came strange rumors of financial "novations" and "painful financial penance." Finally, the Finance Minister spoke...
...action, stating that temporary seizure was necessary in the public interest to end the strike and that Boone could have reached a compromise agreement with the strikers had he explained to the Syndicate that the Company was owed $250,000 by the state and municipal governments. In answer to charges that Boone's life had been threatened, the note said that he could at any time have demanded Federal protection but did not. The note implied, however, that the plant would be returned to its owners...
Echoes of a perennial controversy furnish the answer. Samuel P. Langley, builder of the first airplane, died, brokenhearted, shortly after the Wrights' first flights; his own attempt to fly had failed some time previously. But it failed, many experts have thought, because Langley tried to have the flight made from a houseboat on the Potomac without provision for a suitable length of run for getaway, and not because his device was inherently deficient...
...great many men in some of the smaller colleges pay their way through college by such jobs as shoveling snow, tending furnaces, and the like. This sort of work, while answering the problem, does not answer it satisfactorily. A man who spends four years shoveling snow has in no wise developed himself, whereas a man who has done some constructive work has made the work that is putting him through college do a double service and actually prepare him for his work in after life...