Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sirs: I question if either cocksureness or ignorance is properly a substitute for ordinary honesty in a review. TIME'S sense of fairness is evidently not wide enough to care that Robert Ingersoll was an agnostic and Thomas Paine a deist, neither of them an atheist. The usual decencies of intelligent controversy do not necessitate that a man be mealymouthed, either in the statement of his own views, or in his attack upon the views of his adversary, but they do at least prohibit misstatements of fact. It may be, to be sure, that TIME quoted Mr. Cameron Rogers...
Among the questions answered by persons filling out applications for U. S. citizenship is Question No. 22, asking whether the applicant, if admitted to citizenship, would bear arms for the U. S. In reply to this question Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, organizer of the Henry Ford "peace ship" in 1917, wrote: "Not personally. I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States." In view of Mme. Schwimmer's prominence among pacifists, this answer may well have been considered pert by naturalization authorities. At any rate, her application was last week refused (by a Chicago naturalization...
...Vanzetti belonged to the Morelli gang, nor were they in any way involved in the South Braintree crime. Mr. Madeiros was first sentenced to be executed in September, 1926, but his connection with the Sacco-Vanzetti case has procured him a series of respites, though there is no question ultimately as to his death...
Baron Wrangel. Grant that the "White Russians" and Grand Duke Nikolai want to invade Russia. . . . There still remains a question: "Where would they get the 120,000 troops postulated last week by Dictator Stalin...
Last week the U. S. Department of Commerce answered this question by publishing a list of landing fields in the U. S. California leads the list of states with 100 fields. Texas follows with 84; then Illinois with 64. New York State is a bit behind the times with only...