Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoughtful men, of whatever belief, agree with the saying of Charles A. Dana, that religion is the most momentous question that can occupy human thought...
...then good form to ridicule sincere men, like those who recently met at Atlanta to consider this momentous question, and who found inspiration in singing the noble hymns at which you sneer...
...prohibition question became involved again in its continual melee by an unexpected turn of events. The Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, an organization of many years' standing, devoted first to temperance and then to prohibition, last week decided to throw over prohibition and return to temperanceroclaimed a new hero, the Rev. Dr. James Empringham, Secretary of the society...
...newspapers began polling Episcopal prelates on the question of modification of the Volstead Act. There was a division of opinion, but evidently the strict prohibitionists were in the majority. Out of 24 who answered an inquiry by the New York Times, only five advocated modification. Two other bishops in favor of modification were found by the industrious (and wet) New York World. A few more declined to comment...
...when it came to the question of tax publicity, the debate prolonged itself into many weary hours. The bill proposes to do away with tax publicity. Senators Norris and Couzens led the group to restore the tax publicity feature. They and their associates talked and read reports for hours...