Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when McKinley made him Comptroller of the Currency. In 1917 he turned the second lap when General Pershing took him on his staff and made him General Purchasing Agent of the A. E. F. After the War he did some first rate arousing when Congress be- gan to question him about purchases for the A. E. .F. and he ejaculated, "Hell 'nd Maria, the Army was sent out to win the War, not to spend days haggling over pennies." He did some more arousing as the first Director of the Budget, when in 1921 he set to work hacking...
...case of Senator Nye, Newcomer No. 4, is complicated because there are doubts as to the legality of his appointment. The regular Republicans are inclined to treat him much as they expect to treat Mr. LaFollette. But the legality of his appointment hangs on the question of whether a state law empowering the Governor of North Dakota to appoint state officers until the next election is applicable. Is a U.S. Senator a state officer? There is a decision of the U. S. Supreme Court which pretty well establishes that a U. S. Senator is a state officer...
...took a good many days to arrive at this agreement, although there was little question of Roumania's ability to meet the payments, and the Roumanian commissioners were evidently instructed to accept whatever were the best terms that the U. S. had to offer...
Speakers for the Debating Union discussion "Resolved, That this house regards prohibition as a practical joke," to be held in the Faculty Room of the Union at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, were announced last night. The affirmative of the question will be upheld by A. P. Donovan ocC., M. M. Drake '27, and A. G. Cooke '26; the negative by J. R. Creel '27, George Slaff '26, and Joseph Skinner '26. All of these men have had wide experience in public speaking...
...have been, no more proof is needed for the theses that Borgia was an upstanding Christian gentleman, and Mistress Gwyn a cheerful creature with no harm in her at all. Thus these moderns display their lack of prejudice by becoming hide-bound on the unpopular side of any given question. Their purpose is clear enough. A customary treatment of Stevenson, for instance, would startle no one. The only thing to do is to reverse the point of view, whitewash villains and smear angels with lamp-black until all are reduced to neutral gray...