Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Winter Comes. But an even more disturbing question arises when the flood victims wonder what will happen to them when the Red Cross funds run out and winter comes down on the impoverished country. Said Mr. Barham: (above mentioned) : "I think it is the duty of the Government to do something. . . . Don't you think it rather childish, to put it mildly, to expect the Red Cross with $15,000,000 to handle the whole problem, the damage bill alone of which will exceed $500,000,000? ... I don't know whether Mr. Coolidge is interested...
...that Mr. White (who was a member of the U. S. secretarial staff in London during the regime of five ambassadors?Phelps, Lincoln, Bayard, Hay, Choate) "conducted a school of diplomacy at London." "He took fresh, green Ambassadors and put them to school," said Mr. Choate. "Hardly a question that could arise did not arise under the five Ambassadors under whom he served. You can imagine, with Harry White in the back room, how much of the responsibility was turned over...
...discuss conditions, deplore evils, suggest remedies; meanwhile the man who holds official authority and responsibility for Hawaiian affairs is Governor Wallace Rider Farrington. Governor (by appointment of President Harding) since July 5, 1921, he has been, is and will be concerned chiefly with one major "problem" the Japanese question. For while the Hawaiian Islands are called Hawaiian on the maps and in the histories, the original Hawaiian stock constitutes less than 10% of the island population. The most recent official figures on Hawaii (the Federal Census of 1920) gave the Islands a population of 255,912. This population was divided...
...Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) took on last week the character of a hot and personal duel over a blunt question: "Shall the present voluntary inferiority of the U. S. Navy to the British Navy be perpetuated by a binding treaty?" This question was haggled over in terms of cruisers, last week, because the cruiser is the strongest naval arm which the Parley was called to consider. Because negotiations proceeded wholly in private, last week, it was necessary to piece together from unofficial sources the guiding concepts which each delegation was striving to round...
...whom Cecil Rhodes, diamond miner, endowed with three-year scholarships at Oxford University, were last week brought upon the black & white carpet of the U. S. press. There are some 550 of them living today of the 608 who have gone to and returned from Oxford since 1904. A question about them had been raised by Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, warden of New College, Oxford, lately Government education minister and for many years a trustee of the Rhodes Fund. The question had been relayed by Professor J. C. Beaty, traveling fellow of Columbia University, after an interview with Mr. Fisher...