Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murderer Ignatz Potz killed a Waukegan, Ill., motor-cycle policeman to avoid arrest for running liquor. He was condemned to death. In 1922, Governor Len Small of Illinois commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment; last week he granted a parole to Potz, effective in 1930. Aside from the question of the legality of a double commutation, aside from the reason for the date 1930, aside from the friendly relations of Potz with Len Small politics, thousands of decent Illinoisans were vastly irritated because this was merely the latest of many criminals to receive favor from a Governor, whom decent...
Premier Baldwin (rising to reply to Laborite insinuations that he owned 200,000 shares in the great iron manufactory, Baldwin's Ltd., and was therefore biased toward the coal owners and anxious to break the strike at the miners' expense) : "I hold the shares in question. That is absolutely true, and they represent the bulk of what I have. ... I might have been a rich man today had I sold' those shares during the War and transferred the proceeds into foreign securities...
...drawbacks of democracy: "It is quite clear that democracy which has breathed so much vitality into the schools of the present generation, may be carried to the point where it will become an evil which can be equaled only by the good it has accomplished. ... It is a serious question in the minds of thoughtful men. . . ." And so it went, speech after speech-Commissioner Augustus O. Thomas of Maine urging that school children be made "internationally minded"; Dr. William Healy, director of the Judge Baker Foundation of Boston, urging mental health measures-until the legislative assembly of 800 adopted resolutions...
...Moral principles are at the base of all permanent business success- they go together. In the long run, every business question, every public question must be settled by what is right and what is wrong," he once declared. These business ideas, fantastic in their period, he had developed in his small town (Wheaton, Ill.) Methodist church circles, had kept them through his political activities there, had used them to build up a law practice of $75,000 yearly. Only if he were permitted to apply them to big business would he accept the presidency of the Federal Steel Co., which...
...work as President has been broken. I had favored American aid toward bringing about a settlement in face of the opposition of public opinion in my country, and I prevented the question from being presented to the League, having faith in the United States...