Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Privy Seal Jim") Thomas had challengingly declared: "It is against the nation's interests for women to work for what they call 'pin money' and thus deprive other people of their legitimate work and livelihood. . . . Legislation cannot cure this evil. It is a question of moral responsibility...
...Directions to Servants, but of A Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable. Even his epigrams have ceased to be annoyingly clever. If he still shocks, it is by the force of his idea rather than by his modern manners: "Normality is only a question of statistics." Other books: Antic Hay, Two or Three Graces, Point Counter Point...
...movement on foot in Massachusetts to meet this request by repealing the state enforcement law. Some think that this prompt withdrawal of support in the face of his request would look life an unfriendly attitude. Others profess to think that it would not. Let everyone face the question honestly and decide for himself who are right...
...general merits of the question, there are a few things to be said for the dry side which must appeal to everyone who really wants to reach a sane conclusion. Unfortunately there are no Boston dailies except the Christian Science Monitor which will either tell the truth themselves or permit the truth to be told in their columns on this question. Harvard students at least ought to want to know the truth. Here are a few facts...
...influence against it, but of course, the standards of the time was against him. Benjamin Franklin threw all the might of his influence against liquor. Washington repeatedly warned his officers to use all their influence to curb drunkenness. Shortly after the revolution several churches took up the question seriously, the Quakers and the Methodists leading the way. Other churches soon, followed, and, from that day to this there has been a constant fight. Not the churches alone, but multitudes of non-church people, following the lead of Franklin, have joined in the fight against liquor. It has been a long...