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Word: questioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again trotted away, chuckled as the previous scene repeated itself. Pleased, the President several times repeated his little prank. Eventually the Secret Service detail discovered the source of the false alarms, put in another bell in a spot unknown to the President. When this story became public, persons who question the existence of a presidential sense of humor flouted its accuracy. Yet Richard Jervis, head of the Executive Secret Service detail, vouched solemnly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, raucous in defense of the Eighteenth Amendment, never mentioned it. President Coolidge never mentioned it. Candidate Smith never mentioned it?because as many Democrats as Republicans had opposed it. Probably not one voter in a thousand had the least idea that the question of reapportionment existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stolen Seats | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...pursue. Thus President Thomas Woodrow Wilson did not know whether or not he was negotiating at Paris a treaty which would be approved by Congress. But in France it is otherwise. There, Parliament can be asked to register approval or disapproval in advance. With intent to ask such a question, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, renowned "Lion of Lorraine," went solemnly last week before the Chamber of Deputies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Now or Never | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...certain hospital patient comes to the School, all the information about him, such as age, number of teeth, etc., numbering perhaps 500, facts, is put onto these cards by means of a code, a punch, for example, in row five column 37 meaning that the person in question is a convalescent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

Then there is the question of hours. Scientific experiment will also solve this problem: let one run from 7 to 11.30 as every nice little party should, and let the other function from 1 to 6. Time allowed for a good supper in Boston and everybody would be gloriously happen! J. C. de Wilde...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Compromise | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

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