Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beveridge's Lincoln is a work that brings together more facts about Lincoln's earlier life and his times than have ever before been assembled; marshaled in the compelling order and presented with the eloquence and dramatic force of which Senator Beveridge was master. It is beyond question the definitive work on its subject and period, illuminating for the scholar, profoundly interesting for the general reader. 2 vols...
...fortune which they contained she had taken with her away from the U. S. on the occasion of her departure in 1925. This accomplished, she took most of the things away with her; the crisis of Ganna Walska's dresses and jewels dwindled into an almost entirely theoretical question of "women's rights." Harold McCormick, who by this time had gladly produced an affidavit corroborating his wife's statement that she lived abroad, was doubtless glad to see the rumpus dwindle, even after so hideous a sputter, to a conclusion that did not include a senate investigation...
...Milwaukee, the Nominee accepted the Willebrandtine view of Prohibition as a "moral issue." "The question," he said, "is what is the best thing to do about...
Then the Smith program was repeated: 1) A "scientific" redefinition of the word "intoxicating" in the Amendment; 2) modification of the alcoholic percentage fixed by the Volstead Act; 3) amendment of the Amendment to return the whole liquor question to the States...
...undersecretaries that the New York Herald Tribune's responsive Harold E. Scarborough cabled: "America's reply to the Franco-British naval compromise delivered to the Foreign Office at noon today, was greeted with relief by British officialdom. . . . So confused had British public opinion become over the whole question of the compromise, that alarmist reports from the United States that Washington in the note would bang and bolt the door on further efforts at naval disarmament were more than half believed. . . . London agrees that this note is the most happily constructed and phrased diplomatic document that has come from...