Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization, should be placed in the same group with the man who murdered his friend and a man who would trade his country for money. In your issue of May 30, you quote Clarence Darrow, a Chicago lawyer, as saying before a Negro organization in attempting to answer the question as to why there are so many different colors among Negroes-"It must be that so many white women have raped colored...
...latter to be maintained at all hazards. But if upward development seems to lie in any other direction, then to maintain the solidity of the family against it, is not being an intelligent guide. I am not saying which way science seems to point, I am merely raising the question to show that whatever the Church urges, it should attempt to know in which direction is the greatest upward development. Or again, if to sanctify unmarried unions would do away, as some urge it would, with promiscuity and the double standard, and better protect the children of legal marriages, then...
...Council postponed consideration of the Albania-Jugoslavia dispute (TIME, June 6), and delayed to the September League Assembly all actions upon the nearly barren report of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Dr. Stresemann commented tartly upon this report last week. Said he: "Solution of the disarmament question, which appeared so simple a few years ago, would now seem to be definitely deferred. . . . Yet the very existence of the League depends upon a general reduction in armaments." Later in the day, M. Briand's "strawberry rash" became so severe that he hastily returned to Pans for expert treatment...
George Buchanan, M. P. (prominent Laborite) : "Oh, what a lie!" Mr. Locker-Lampson (answering amid hubbub a Conservative question as to how relations with Rus sia may be resumed) : "The initiative should come from the Soviet Government, whose hostile activities compelled the British Government to suspend diplomatic relations. The Soviet Government know well that if they come forward with constructive proposals we shall be glad to consider them, but first they must abstain from propa ganda against this country." In addition to this sharp exchange in the Commons, excitement was manifest in British Communist circles last week when the Foreign...
...pervading influence must be kept wholesome and beneficial; in fact, it must even be exercised in a way to compel literature and the drama also to be wholesome and beneficial-as far as may be reasonable, within the more restricted limits of their narrower spheres." Taking up the question of whether the publication of crime news prevents or incites crime, Mr. Hearst concluded that it had very little effect either way. Crime news is printed, said Mr. Hearst, because "whatever reflects life truthfully must deal with the harsh and cruel things in life as well as with the sweet...