Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condition of their business. The Supreme Court ruled that a bill enjoining the Trade Commission from enforcing its orders should have been dismissed by the District of Columbia Supreme Court, jurisdiction lying not with the courts but with the U. S. Attorney General. The decision, limited to the technical question of jurisdiction, leaves the Trade Commission's power still undefined, furnace-makers no wiser...
Hackneyed among debating societies is the topic: Resolved, that city life is preferable to country life. But last year more than 3,000,000 U. S. citizens held personal debate on the question and two times out of three the city...
Labor? This question was asked particularly by citizens of Windsor, Ontario, Canadian border city, suburb of Detroit. To them the answer to the question looked like an unpleasant affirmative...
Then, comparing the relation of the individual to society to that of the nation to the "society of nations", President Hibben went on, in the second part of his lecture, to score the "complacent boasting of 100 per cent Americanism as "questionable" and "a begging of the question," because it "assumes that one is serving America best who holds strictly to a policy of isolation." He urged the country to "recognize the fact that the world is one world and what ever peril may menace a part of it vitally effects the whole...
...speech delivered last night by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University is indicative of an encouraging tendency in American thought of the present day. The general title of the Godkin Lecture, "Free Government and the Duties of Free Citizenship" is a question of interest and importance to all citizens, and one upon which public opinion is ever inquiringly active. Any light which may be cast upon the point is welcome. In President Hibben's address we find the head of one great university placing his opinions on this vital matter before the members of another university. The institutions...