Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken the Commission three years to fix the cost of mail transportation. At the end of this time the Commission had judged that the government owed railroads $45,000,000 for previous service. The President stated that he had objected to this decision, had refused payments. The question had been carried to the Supreme Court. This difficulty would have been avoided, said the President, if the Commission had been more expeditious...
Meanwhile, by debate, by letter, by whisper, by everything except precise calculation, the official and unofficial agencies of U. S. Government were attempting to fix exactly what should be spent to enforce its most famed law in fiscal 1930. The question was completely devoid of definitions but was pungently involved with politics, sentiment, vanity, religion, and a dozen characters, of which the most distinguished were the President of U. S. and the President-Elect...
...question was precipitated by a jest. Many weeks ago Maryland's bumbling Bruce moved in the Senate that 270 millions, in addition to the customary 13 million dollars, be voted for Federal enforcement. Since Senator Bruce detests Prohibition, his motion was deemed ironic. However, as the irony was labored, it was also painful. After enduring for many days the taunts of the Wets, a Democratic Senator from Georgia, who is usually harmless, but who is a passionate Dry, arose and said, yes, more money ought to be appropriated to Prohibition, but let it be the reasonable sum of 25 millions...
...view of the present wide public interest in the tunnel project the government has come to the conclusion that the time is ripe for a comprehensive reexamination of the question. We are anxious that a very thorough consideration should be made of the economic aspects of the matter in order that these may be weighed with imperial defence considerations and a decision reached on broad grounds of national policy." (See Parliament's Week...
...decision was welcomed by the New York Central. It marked the Commis sion's first favorable decision on a question concerning vital railroad consolidation. Both the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Big Four") and the Michigan Central have long been New York Central subsidiaries, New York Central owning more than 90% of their stocks. They have been operated as separate units, however, and the New York Central based its consolidation plea on the argument that "the necessity for protecting the earnings of each carrier" prevented complete unification and coordination of the system. A. H. Harris, chairman...