Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the question ever does reach open debate, Representative Homer Hoch of Kansas (which is threatened with losing a seat) will make a sharp but probably futile point. He will submit that House seats should be allotted, not on a basis of mass population, but on a basis of the citizens in each State, the voting population. This idea will be hotly fought by California, which stands to gain perhaps six seats in a Reapportionment based on the 1930 census. California's population, like New York's, was swelled enormously between the census of 1910 and the restrictive...
...will the Congress work with Hoover?" The question was and is often asked. An inkling of an answer appeared last week while the House Appropriations Committee was considering the Budget Bureau's figures for running the Department of Commerce next year. As a rule, if Congressmen have fault to find with Budget estimates it is that they are too large. But at this hearing, the Congressmen listened respectfully to Director Julius Klein of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Mr. Klein protested that the money set down for his Bureau in the Budget was too small. "The situation...
...trouble you to let me know the answer to the above question, and if Governor Smith did not receive the largest popular vote, except for Mr. Hoover, will you please state who did and what the figures as to the votes were...
Reasons for laggard Latin American communications are 1) lack of capital; 2) lack of initiative, and 3) lack of imagination. Notoriously well-supplied with all three of these desirable attributes are U. S. communication companies. An enterprising executive, therefore, might well ask himself this question: Why should my company not invade this deplorably backward continent, consolidate its scattered, ineffective companies, modernize its lines, link its capitals...
Last week, it became apparent that such an executive had both asked and answered such a question. The executive was Col. Sosthenes Behn. His company was the 8-year-old International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which last week announced plans to pay $60,000,000 for the British-owned United River Plate Telephone Co., serving 185,000 subscribers in Buenos Aires and four Argentine provinces...