Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Followed, shortly, to Nanking a Russian ultimatum demanding within three days release of all Soviet prisoners in Harbin, consent to an immediate conference to discuss the C. E. R. question...
...Guardsman. To catch his actress-wife in an infidelity, an actor-husband masquerades as a Russian guardsman, woos her in disguise. Later she says she recognized he was acting, acted herself. The question...
...Association Journal last week: "Smoking ... by women has no apparent influence over the functions of the genital system. . . . There is no mention [in expert research on the subject ] of tobacco heart in newborn children. . . . The morality of smoking by women is not a medical concern any more than the question as to whether or not they should go bareheaded into church...
Coming to the tariff question, Mr. Macauley said that a year or two ago U. S. Motors would have unanimously approved putting automobiles on the free list. But now, said he, foreign makers have adopted U. S. production methods, employ U. S. engineers. Furthermore: "We have an increasing number of foreign plants, owned or controlled jointly by American manufacturers and foreign interests, the ultimate effects of which no one can forecast." Mr. Macauley felt, therefore, that a partial reduction of from 25% to 10% should be tried before any free list measure was considered. But buses, heavy duty trucks, electric...
...seemed likely that the failure was for $5,000,000. that 5 cents on the dollar was the probable settlement figure. Clarke Bros. (James, Philip, Hudson Clarke and John F. Bouker) announced that they would do everything they could. at the same time refusing to answer many an investigating question and showing few symptoms of real cooperation. Investigators for Irving Trust Co., receivers, quickly discovered that the listed assets of the bank had little meaning. There were bad bonds, bad oil stocks, bad loans. There was a credit of $840,000 against the New York Port Terminal Co., a company...