Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borah add: 'Herbert, so far you have ignored this question. If you do not immediately answer it "yes" or "no," the righteous wrath of vast multitudes of voters will wax hot against you and, like a great conflagration, consume you and your vaulting ambition on the floor of the Kansas City convention.' [Laughter...
...Inquisitor Walsh propounded a question of legal ethics, suggesting that plump, dapper, white-haired Lawyer Martin W. Littleton might well resign as Sinclair's lawyer. At Sinclair's last trial, Lawyer Littleton said that Sinclair was in no wise connected with the Continental Trading Co., a mysterious, short-lived oil-trading company out of whose profits, transformed into Liberty Bonds, the G. O. P. is now known to have received $160,000 from Sinclair for its Harding campaign deficit. Unless Lawyer Littleton lied to the jury, which Inquisitor Walsh felt was unthinkable, Sinclair must have lied...
Stubborn correspondents have insisted, for some months, that the "Roman Question" would be solved during 1928. In imagination they have fairly hustled the "Prisoner of the Vatican" out of his retirement and into a concordat with his erstwhile "Jailers," King Vittorio Emanuele and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Rumors to this effect were cabled last month, in extenso, even by respected Salvatore Cortesi, who has served the Associated Press in Rome for 25 years. Meanwhile observers of poised judgment could only point out (TIME, Feb. 13) certain sufficient indications that no such happy event was germinating. They quoted, for example...
Last week the strained situation thus indicated led finally to an overt and acrimonious interchange of statements by His Holiness and Il Duce. When the lightning of their irritation had cleared the air, all hopes for a settlement of the Roman Question, this year, had gone glimmering...
Pope and Premier had thus exchanged blows making their estrangement absolute. But the question arose, "Who counseled His Holiness to flay Fascismo?" For answer observers looked well upon Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, famed Papal Secretary of State. At him a jumpy Protestant might well point a finger and cry, "Papist!" He is of heavy, compact, menacing build, and his great eyebrows have that peculiar upward and outward tilt with which most sculptors have endowed the Prince of Darkness...