Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kangaroo court. Said he: "I think most people, regardless of their economic views, realize that we have gone into a new era and that we have to find some new rules. But I think they want to go about the job without resorting to punitive tactics. . . . It is a question whether the educated opinion of the American people can preserve democracy in Government and business...
...rates to pure "subterfuge." Until last week neither utility men nor the public knew just what equations TVA did use in working out its rates. Last week, as the joint House-Senate investigating committee and its counsel, Francis Biddle, squared away to look into this and many another TVA question, the President sent to Congress a long-awaited report from TVA's financial committee on cost allocation. At last they show just where the notches on the Authority's yardstick had been...
...French Parliament, Communist and Rightist deputies howled at each other over the question of aid to Leftist Spain, were prevented from fistfighting on the Chamber floor only by a hastily formed wall of old-soldier ushers. Speaker of the Chamber Edouard Herriot suspended the sitting twice to restore order and next day Premier Edouard Daladier adjourned Parliament until November, thus freeing his hands to do as he likes without parliamentary interference. Reported moved to the Spanish Leftist border as a frontier patrol were 30,000 Mobile Guards. Then came the official announcement that no longer would France allow munitions from...
...board of a limited company is a Jew, the concern will be Jewish; 3) if one-fourth of the capital is owned by Jews, the company will be Jewish. Furthermore, "Aryan" trading with Jews will be considered a "deliberate demonstration against the Government's attitude on the Jewish question...
...assorted parlor games in the Town Hall Big Game Hunt, summer substitute for Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight. Old Vaudevillian Norman Frescott, who takes over from Allen July 6, claims that his program will be the most diverse and complicated ever. "The audience asks the announcer a question," facetiously says he, "the announcer puts a question to a guest star, who puts one to the band leader, who puts one to the soprano. And after the program, the sponsor puts...