Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office because it was claimed that he had violated the law. On the other hand were various positions dangling in his face with no other purpose, I believe, than to influence his official action on the Tariff Commission. He finally did accept an appointment. It has always been a question in my mind whether he did not yield to temptation...
Meanwhile a poll carried on through the press on the question of retaining the prohibition law or repealing it, or changing it to permit light wines and beer, brought about a million ballots, in which the proportion of dry votes was only about one in nine...
Wayne B. Wheeler retorted for the Anti-Saloon League: "Do the people want beer and wine? The minority does. The majority does not, or it would secure them by legal and orderly methods. The majority has spoken its mind on this question, not once but repeatedly; not in straw votes but in official ballots, and that majority has rejected the wine and beer plan...
...Senate rules. In the Chamber senators are supposed to address themselves only to the Chair and to refer to One another in the third person. The press has noted of late that there has been some laxity in this respect. But last week Senator Watson was asking a question of Senator Fess. Senator Watson's desk is in the front row, third from the centre aisle. Senator Fess' desk is in the fourth (rear) row, eighth from the aisle (nearly directly behind Mr. Watson's because of the semicircular arrangement of the desks). Mr. Watson turned to Mr. Fess, thereby...
...American people are tired of this condition, and my candidacy will give the voters of Pennsylvania an opportunity to express their views on the question...