Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suddenly poke through the waves. . . ." The facts of this accident as reported by TIME do not differ materially from those cited by Captain King. None the less TIME did not explicitly state that the pumping of a small amount of air into the lifting pontoons on the day in question was but a preliminary action, not intended to produce the disastrous raising of the bow, which actually resulted from an unpredictable and unexpected relaxation of the sea bottom's grip upon the S-51. To Captain King thanks for making clear this point. The remarks attributed to Captain King...
...Iowa a little more than a year past Mr. Brookhart was nominated by the Republicans for Senator. "There was no question about the regularity or honesty of his nomination," said Norris. "But he showed an independence of action that displeased the Republican party leaders, and they called on the people of Iowa to vote for the Democratic nominee." And a Republican majority in Congress gave the seat to the Democrat, when Republican Brookhart's election was contested. If Republicans scratched Brookhart for radicalism, should they scratch Vare for vote-buying? Especially, when the Democrat is a most honorable...
...Returned under the banner of Lord Salisbury who cried: "It is quite obvious what these noble (filibustering) Lords are trying to do. It is an abuse of the traditions and privileges of the House. I move that the question be now put!" (The bill passed 44 to 4, was signed by the King-Emperor...
...members of Britain's highest court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Both grew quipful last week when the Committee considered an appeal by the Canadian Ministry of Finance against a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada respecting one Cecil Smith, confessed bootlegger. Succinctly put, the question at issue was: "Ought the Crown to reap taxes from incomes known to be drawn from illegal sources, or is the $90,000 annual income of Cecil Smith nontaxable because he is a bootlegger...
Since the balmy isle in question which lies off the coast of Portuguese East Africa, would cover an area equivalent to that of an elipse passing through Manhattan, Des Moines and Richmond, the exact whereabouts of Krim's exile were but vaguely indicated...