Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gains nothing by this practice, and certainly our country gains nothing. Is there a man or woman in the U. S. who would have less respect for our President if he traveled in the world's finest private train, costing perhaps $1,000,000? Let me answer my own question by saying that the peoples of the earth would all have more respect for our President if he lived and traveled in a style worthy of the U. S. I have traveled in almost every Latin-American country, and I know that $10 worth of increased prestige for our country...
...lower house of the Illinois legislature has called for a state referendum on the whole question an example which other legislatures might do well to follow. The votes of the citizens are the only statistics which can put an end to the welter of opposing figures, of can vasses and straw votes, stirred up by the wets and drys, and they might have some effect, as well, on the hidden forces which foment in Washington. As it is both supporters of and objectors against the eighteenth amendment must admit that its machinery needs readjusting...
...last two English A debates of the year, held last night in Harvard 5 and 6, the two teams from Mr. Symser's section won both of their debates upholding the affirmative and negative of the question. "Resolved: That Censorship of Literature and the Legitimate Stage be Abolished." In one the decision of the judges was unanimous and in the second a 2 to 1 decision was given...
...revealed in the seniors' voting statistics announced at the banquet. Having voted girls as their favorite study, the 1927 Princetonians selected Harvard after Smith and Vassar as the most popular women's college. Harvard again came in for its share of good natured sarcasm when many seniors answered the question: "What has 1927 done for Princeton?" by saying, "dropped Harvard...
...Kipling. This set would bring several thousand dollars at auction. Lewis Carroll's correaction of his "Phantasmagoria," one of the recently acquired Carroll collection, is also on show, as is the proof of "Confessions of a Unionist," by Stevenson. This work, which deals with the Irish question, was originally set up for Scribner's Magazine, but as they did not dare to publish it for fear of causing trouble, it was not actually brought out until recently...