Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the question of the tariff comes up again, the strange melodious call of the bobwhite is sure to be heard in the Senate, followed by a mocking echo of Democratic laughter...
...Shenandoah as soon as practicable with a ship of about twice her size; 5) a five year program of airplane and airship construction; 6) provision for adequate air stations at Coco Solo and Pearl Harbor; 7) improvement in aviation training-facilities at Annapolis; 8) settlement of the flight-pay question; 9) encouragement of private airplane builders by liberality in letting naval air contracts...
Aeronautics. The chief fighting matter before the convention was Col. William Mitchell's aviation charges. A large section of the convention was for taking a stand directly behind. A bitter contest was feared. The Aeronautics Committee struggled for three days with the question of formulating a resolution. It turned out finally an endorsement of Col. Mitchell's plan for a single Department of National Defense with coequal Army, Navy and Air branches. The convention endorsed this and saved a fight...
...struggle was decided in a single ballot. John R. McQuigg of East Cleveland, Ohio, 59, whitehaired, banker and lawyer, former engineer in the A. E. F. (with rank of Brigadier General) was elected. His vote was more than twice that of his competitors. His attitude on the Mitchell question may be gathered from his statement: "The American Legion has not and will not commit itself as a body to the support of Colonel Mitchell or his theories...
...denied that a Turko-British crisis is impending, declaring that Britain is still willing to arbitrate the question of whether Iraq or Turkey shall eventually possess Mosul, indicated that he believes the League of Nations and the Hague Court will be able to induce Turkey to fulfill the obligation which Englishmen consider she assumed at Brussels last October...