Word: questionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most foreign-policied President since Woodrow Wilson is Herbert Hoover. In six months in office he has stirred up a new naval disarmament todo, and last week he opened up another question, discarded not so long ago: U. S. adherence to the World Court...
...their people at home. The Insurgents, led by Idaho's Borah, and the Democrats, were agreed that they wanted tax reports made available - as am munition. The tax reports will show what profits numbers of businesses have made under present tariff duties. When it came to the question of confining the tariff to agriculture, the Democrats became anxious about defections from their ranks. They were just as uneasy about voting on specific tariff rates. In fact every one was a little uneasy. So with many whisperings behind the scenes it was agreed that the prolog should be not tariff...
Five-Power Disarmament. Referring to progress made in his naval disarmament pourparlers with President Hoover via Ambassador Dawes the Prime Minister raised an international furore by implying that all but three of 20 points of difference between Britain and the U. S. on this question had been ironed out. What were the three points? Correspondents tried so hard to guess that they well nigh ignored a much more significant passage in which Mr. MacDonald said, "What we [Britain and the U.S.]want to get is an agreement which, having been made, can be a preliminary to the calling...
...thoroughly competent. General Pershing did the best he could notwithstanding the many embarrassing handicaps which .were placed upon him. He demonstrated to the complete satisfaction of the administration that he was a soldier through and through, one who would loyally obey the orders of the Commander-in-Chief without question or complaint. How natural it was a few months later when the same administration was looking for a commander for the A. E. F. that it should turn to this soldier of ability; of great force and dignity who would not play politics. The details as to just...
...sites of the chief generating stations of the Palestine Power Trust, founded and managed by famed, dynamic Zionist Pincus Rutenberg (TIME, Mar. 4). Neither bristling, florid, militant General Dobbie nor the cold, curt High Commissioner made the smallest vestige of an answer to the week's most vital question: Why were not adequate British forces rushed to Palestine three weeks ago when the Wailing Wall riots unmistakably threatened the nationwide Jew-Arab clashes which inevitably followed...