Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although I think I could satisfy you as to the question of the motive behind this attack, as I could not prove it in court and wish to confine myself to facts, I shall pass over the question of motives...
...latter direction, when the Senate passed a bill creating an Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of commercial aviation (see LEGISLATIVE WEEK). But the debate had little to do with military naval aviation, and so the figure who will probably have most to do with determining the question did not ap- pear. He is the Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Amid all the hubbub he has remained silent, venturing no opinions, making no speeches. His only actions worth mentioning in Congress during the past three weeks, have been occasionally to assume the gavel in the absence...
MOSUL. The vexed question of whether the Republic of Turkey or the British-protected Kingdom of Irak shall hold sway over the oil fields and Christians in the Vilayet of Mosul (TIME, Dec. 31 et ante) was illuminated early in the week by the report of the Esthonian General Laidoner, sent by the League to investigate British charges against the Turks (TIME...
...luncheon in question was a somewhat unique affair. The invitation list included, not the usual long-haired admirers of communism but some of the most eminent, not to say hardboiled, bankers of Wall Street. The luncheon was held in the spacious Bankers' Club behind closed doors...
...been pointedly omitted from Mrs. Harriman's exhibition. So has that of a good many famed Englishmen and Frenchmen. But although the omissions in this, as in every other international exhibition, will lead to discussion, possibly even to ill-feeling, not even the disgruntled artists themselves could question the patrician disinterestedness of a lady who is one of the most noted sponsors of good art in this country. She was helped in choosing the American artists by Marius de Zayas, art dealer; the English by Ambrose McEvoy and Augustus E. John; the French by Camille Mauclair, critic...