Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just as effective. Our committee on National Affairs makes a thorough study of the referundum, taking into consideration the arguments both pro and con. Their resolution is then placed before the Board of Directors made up of 21 leading men in the community who in turn thoroughly investigate the question at hand and pass on it accordingly. Theses men are delegated by the membership of the organization to represent them just as legislators represent the public. Generally these various boards of directors are made up of the outstanding business men of the city...
...Marines last week aroused criticism. Why had adequate reinforcements not been kept ready somewhere near Nicaragua? Of the 1,400 men embarking, 500 were at San Diego, Calif.; the rest had to be collected from Charleston, S. C., Hampton Roads, Va., Philadelphia and even Brooklyn. Congressmen agitated the broader question of whether or not "war" existed and was justified in Nicaragua. Defenders of the Administration sidetracked embarrassing resolutions (see THE CONGRESS). But Congress could not silence embarrassing remarks by citizens such as one Harold Leavey of Brooklyn, N. Y., father of one of the embarking Marines. Said Mr. Leavey...
...York World reported the property resold for $800,000. None cried "Graft!" But Tammanyites asked, "Who profited?" Joseph P. Day, whose reputation as a realtor in and about Manhattan is no less illustrious than Peter Minuit's,* had handled both the sale and the speedy resale. The question having arisen, Mr. Day announced that the resale price was $770,000. The question being pressed, Mr. Day agreed that the 10% profit should go to Tammany Hall...
...opposing clubs which have won their way to the final round are Bryce-Powell, to be represented by C.G. Helmerdinger 3L. and M.E. Purnell 3L., and Sanford, represented by H.P. Carter 3L. and J.C. Toaz 3L. The case to be tried concerns an immigration question of great importance at the present time, on which no definite decision has been rendered in the Federal Courts...
...evangel of hate who came to Chicago from the East when Harvard and Princeton finally broke relations, but, even so, there is the feeling among Chicago Harvard men that athletic relations should be resumed. Elsewhere throughout the West Harvard graduates whom the writer has met deprecate the break without question, and invariably the first question they put to the writer involves the prospects of a restoration of football and other competitive games between the two. If in the East the two bodies of alumni regretted the Harvard-Princeton status as deeply as they do in the middle West and Rocky...