Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insular legislature and Governor .General Wood. The independence faction in the islands sent a mission, consisting of Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Insular House, to the U. S. last Fall (TIME, Nov. 19). Senor Roxas presented his case to the President, and last week received a plain-spoken answer in the form of a letter. Said the President...
Senor Roxas was not at all pleased by this direct answer. He fumed. He was reported as saying in an interview...
These statements were made at the National Democratic Club, Manhattan, of which Thomas E. Rush is President. After the speech Mr. Thomas was interrogated. QUESTION: Why did the President veto the Volstead Act? ANSWER : Wilson vetoed it because he was a great historian and knew constitutional law. QUESTION: What effect did the absence of our men fighting overseas have on the enactment of the Volstead Act? ANSWER: "Well it took away 4,000,000 of our best drinkers and by that I mean men who took a little wine for their stomachs' sake...
...answer to a host of adverse criticism which appeared in the press of France, Spain and Italy, the Admiralty let it be known that, in sending the Fleet to the Mediterranean, it was only returning to the historic policy, temporarily abandoned 15 years ago, of using that sea as a base...
...University on the evening of March 18 and 19, will be "Preparedness or Paolfiam?" On the first night at the Union he will discuss the subject of "The Roots of War," and on the second night at Phillips Brooks House he will reply to the question, "Can Civilization Answer the Problem...