Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the potent Senate Finance Committee, was in Washington talking about a tax cut of perhaps 500 millions. President Coolidge sharply announced that, with a U. S. debt of 18 billions, a tax cut of 500 millions was out of the question and 400 millions was immoderate. He strongly favored some tax reduction, he said, but would not say how much. Prior to last week the Administration's tax cut estimate was 300 millions...
...question is one of money, and until the United States-is able to support an army of sufficient size, until the Administration is aroused to the real need, nothing can be done and we shall in the meantime continue to perish by degrees." When these words reached Washington, D. C., it happened that Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis was away and also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider. The Acting Secretary of War was, for the moment, Brigadier General Briant Harris Wells, Deputy Chief of Staff. Perhaps it was to save General Wells the embarrassment of giving an order...
...Rosika Schwimmer, 54, beetle-browned Hungarian Jewess, indefatigable publicist, onetime Hungarian Minister to Switzerland, has been trying for some time to become a U. S. citizen. Because she, in 1915, helped persuade Henry Ford to outfit and command his famed "Peace Ship," she was subjected to specially alert questioning by a Chicago naturalization board last summer (TIME, July 11). When she told the board she was an atheist and that she would not personally bear arms for the U.S. because " I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States," the board refused her citizenship. Last...
...Charles A. Levine had been a popular figure long before the emergence of Hero Levine, the demonstration was more florid. Shiny motor cars, opulent furs, proud gesticulations, eager recognition surrounded every step of the native's return. Smiles and congratulations flowed freely everywhere, together with a babble of question about Hero Levine's business plans. His plans are, he said in his unbothered way, to fly from Europe to the U. S. some day and to promote aviation as best Charles A. Levine can. " I'm going to leave the talking to others," he said...
Also, a pertinent question arises as to whether M. Poincare's stand on the tariff is not derived from a desire to bargain for a safeguard clause* in the debt disaccord with the U. S., which the French Parliament refuses to ratify...