Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unexpectedly he said: "I am not insensible to the value of the study which sincere farm leaders have given to this question of farm legislation. They have all contributed to the realization that the problem must be solved. They will be invited into conference. Outstanding farmers such as Governor Lowden will be asked to join in the search for common ground upon which...
Arthur Curtiss James, Manhattan Republican, potent financier ("largest U. S. rail stock holder"). Reason: Prohibition. He telegraphed: "Hearty congratulations on your great acceptance speech . . . my hearty support." He explained: "I do not believe that Mr. Smith's election will settle the [Prohibition] question, but at least it will give me a chance to stand up and be counted...
...Said the Quebec Premier last week: "I cannot make any actual comment upon any of the planks of the platform advocated by either Mr. Smith or Mr. Hoover. However, I might say that I am not altogether insensible to the reference made by the Democratic candidate to the liquor question. When some of my friends in the opposition in the Legislature offered some bitter criticism at the time the Government introduced the Quebec Liquor Act, I replied that before very long our liquor legislation would be copied by the other provinces. ... I did not altogether expect that the day might...
...fair trial for one of the best measures ever adopted by this or any other country-in other words, if they had supported the Constitution of the United States-our public officials (including our judges), our children, our servants, our employes and the thinking public generally would without question have caught the spirit of law observance...
...Involuntarily the question arises what were the English seeking in our territorial waters in 1919? Without any formal declaration of war they attacked us, sank our ships and bombarded our forts. The English monitor Erebus frequently fired her 15-in. guns at our fort, Red Hill. The English broke into our house by the right of might to kill the workers and peasants and to turn back the wheel of revolution...