Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to the U. S. last week at Pensacola and proceeded at once to his "second home" at Warm Springs, Ga., was watched intently by the correspondents whose daily duty it is to report his words and deeds. Hanging in the air like a summer thunderstorm was the question: what would Franklin Roosevelt do now about his purge of the Democratic Party? Especially, what would he do about Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, on whom Roosevelt lieutenants had sicked as an opponent in next month's primary Lawrence Sabyllia Camp, Georgia's onetime Attorney General...
...abandon the Purge against the three most-mentioned candidates for purging: Senator George in Georgia, Senator Smith in South Carolina, Senator Tydings in Maryland. A guide for Mr. Roosevelt was last week offered by Dr. George Gallup's Institute of Public Opinion. Dr. Gallup polled citizens on the question: "If you had been a member of Congress during the last two years, would you have supported every bill recommended by President Roosevelt?" Returns...
Last June, FCC opened hearings on the superpower question, last month took up the specific case of WLW, last week was told of business plucked from a small station by WLW's giant strength. The hearing closed with another renewal of WLW's experimental 500 kw. till February 1939. But this time the renewal is subject to the final decisions which will come out of FCC's hearings of the last two months. These decisions are likely to be delayed until next year while the FCC digests volumes of argument and thinks about the Senate, where, before...
...Daily News Cartoonist Vaughn Richard Shoemaker last week suggested that Father Divine might have occasion to borrow a lawn mower for his new 500-acre estate across the Hudson River from Franklin Roosevelt's "Krum Elbow" (see cut). The possibility of such a call soon became open to question. In New York...
Stanford. Admirers compared Leland Stanford with Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great and John Stuart Mill, but Partner Collis Huntington described him tersely as "a damned old fool." His profound thought before he answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him as long to answer a simple question as a difficult one. Governor of California when the Central Pacific was started, Stanford loved the limelight as much as Huntington hated it, loved display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger...