Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest to the sum of $20.40. The Berlin firm agreed that the Manhattan firm was entitled to its claim, but argued that the German Government should pay the claim, since the German bankers were not responsible for the War and should not be held liable for its consequences. The question involved was, Should the German bankers be made to pay or should the German Government be made to pay through attachment of German funds held by the Alien Property Custodian...
Colonel Mitchell complained that the charges were framed so as not to bring up the question whether what he said was true but merely whether he "called the War and Navy Departments into disrepute." The War Department admits this, saying that the President's Air Inquiry Board is investigating whether or not the Mitchell charges are true, and that the court martial is to handle the separate question of whether Colonel Mitchell erred in his manner of making them...
...same Constitution which gives Congress power to enact those articles forbids its passing any law abridging that freedom. The right of freedom of speech is undoubtedly guaranteed by the Constitution, and if the 96th Article of War abridges that right, it is unconstitutional and void. It becomes a question, then, whether the Army and the War Department are governed by the Constitution, or whether they are at liberty to ignore its' provisions...
...utterances during those trying days -and it was as important for me to understand him as it was for his closest friends-that the key to all he did was that he thought of everything in terms of Wilson. In other words, Mr. Wilson in dealing with every great question thought first of himself. He may have thought of the country next, but there was a long interval, and in the competition the Democratic Party, I will do him the justice to say, was a poor third...
Still, the question will intrude itself: who will do the cheering and the singing? The sober citizen who pays entrance money may utter disconnected howls and yells during a thrilling end run, just as he would during a fast double play, but even the antics of the best cheerleader the club owners can find will scarcely remove his natural repugnance to bawling rhythmic nonsense. That kind of thing is all well enough for the Youngsters, but hard on the middle aged lungs and lanynx...