Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia has little snow, but snow had just fallen heavily in Washington. Gesturing dramatically toward the snow on the White House lawn, the President asked Mr. Adams how he had the heart to turn a million jobless men off into a desolation like that. It was a tough question to any man, a tougher question to ask a politician...
...shrewd question to which few U. S. citizens have an articulate answer. The General Staff of the Army believe that only Britain could invade North or South America, that Germany with all her air fleet could not do so because of her minuscule navy and shortage of transports, that Japan might seize the Philippines but hardly cross the Pacific...
Released last week by Dr. George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion were the results of a poll on the question: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Mrs. Roosevelt has conducted herself as 'First Lady?' " Her husband was approved by 58% of the voters in a recent Gallup poll (and by 62% of the major party voters in the 1936 election). Mrs. Roosevelt won approval from 67%. Unlike her husband she got a majority of favorable votes in the upper income group...
...respectable newspapers. New Dealer Harold L. Ickes throws the most accomplished tantrums in Washington. Famed Biologist Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins, who likes to drink good beer and play the French horn, makes his views more articulate than most scientists. Last week these three had their say on the question "Do We Have A Free Press...
...Conference at Lima (TIME, Nov. 21, et seq.), where she was a U. S. delegate, went plump, soft-voiced Florence Kathryn Lewis, 27, daughter of John L. Lewis. Asked why she had quit Bryn Mawr to work for her father, she replied: "It wasn't so much a question of wanting to work with father, but of getting into the movement. . . . I've been arguing with him ever since I was two years...