Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British came like one banker coming to meet another. There was very little question of capacity to pay. The British were too proud to admit that they might be unable to pay any debt they had contracted. The negotiations were chiefly a matter of arranging suitable terms. The Belgians came, poof and little, but proud. They were faced by a creditor who acknowledged that there were moral reasons for mitigating the debt. Arrangements were worked out on this basis. The French came exclaiming "We are poor! Oh, so poor, hélas!" and were intent on driving a bargain...
...have gone beyond the question as to what we think about the liquor traffic or about Prohibition. We are face to face with the problem as to whether, when, through the proper use of all the legislative processes known to our republic, we have achieved a signal victory over a great evil, we are to be deterred from the enjoyment of that victory by an unscrupulous minority whose one slogan is 'You can't enforce that...
...advise me that diplomatic usage in a case of this kind requires me to accept Count Porta's version of the occurrence, notwithstanding the statement to the contrary of the State police officer and three reliable witnesses, then I shall be very glad to consider again the question of returning to Count Porta the $30. These witnesses say he paid by way of compensation for the damage...
...Book Flung across House of Commons!", "Wild Ulsterite Attacks Winston Churchill!" Such were the sensational headlines in which Mr. Ronald McNeill, an Irish-Barrister-M.P., achieved notoriety in 1914. Differing with the genial "Winnie" Churchill over the momentous Ulster border question, he threw a book at him-a small one. Recent events caused the incident to be recalled with chuckles...
...secretary, one Quaglia, who reserved a room in each of the three hotels which command various aspects of the Palazzo Chigi. The rooms were engaged for "an old friend, a wounded Fascist officer who wishes to view the Armistice Day celebration." And early on the morning in question a certain "Major Silvestrini" limped into the little Hotel Dragoni, demanding the room which had been reserved for him. The hotel manager, noting that the "Major's" breast was covered with decorations and that his open throated tunic revealed a Fascist black shirt, showed him without comment to a room looking...