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Word: questionably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eugene Meyer Jr. was retiring as head of the Federal Farm Loan Board. A farewell dinner was in order. Mrs. Meyer ingeniously devised a system of four tables to circumvent the troublesome question of Precedence. She would head one table, Mr. Meyer another, Vice President Curtis a third, Mrs. Gann a fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Discourtesies | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...basic question involved is a large one, one which will surely confront America for the next few decades. As yet we have been unable to decide whether we shall have active government control of business, and in the few cases where we do have it, how much power the board or commission shall wield. The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Reserve Board are unique in being the only government bodies that have grown to a position of real power, and now both are being challenged by big business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATE INTERVENTION | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

...only tangible facts upon which such--conclusions are to be drawn are necessarily limited. Aside from information based upon widely varied personal experience, the accessible facts are limited to a check-up or attendance in Widener over the particular period in question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTONOMY | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

...numbers invading the Reading Room of Widener have without question been sufficient to support the contention that the capacity of the library is being severely taxed, or the assertion that no similar adventure in the recent educational development of the University has met with such persistently good results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTONOMY | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

...editorial in the carren; Harvard Alumni Bulletin, entitled "Multiple Loyalties" which comments on the recent election of Edward L. Katzenbach, Princeton '00 to the presidency of the Harvard Club of New Jersey, the question of the relations existing between Harvard and Princeton is treated in a most cordial manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/7/1929 | See Source »

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