Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a number of topics which I discuss in my course, and I like to feel free to choose what course each lecture will take after I have started talking. It so frequently happens that a question, or even a look, will indicate that this is the proper moment for discussing some special topic...
...bill in question had been prepared, he said, to enable the Government to extend assistance to clerical missions in the far flung French colonies. Their work was of the greatest value in coordinating a Colonial Empire so vast that it is the second largest in the world. The Cabinet as a whole and more especially its Radical and Socialist members, added M. Poincaré, had never been consulted by him with respect to the bill, which had originated in the Foreign Ministry, where sole responsibility must rest. Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed...
...meetings there was a plethora of papers read. The papers were cogent, instructive, inspiring; but how effective they would be upon bureaucratic health officers was a common rhetorical question in many a Chicago hotel room...
Good taste, however, needed defense in the debate on the question of authorizing the Commission on Evangelism to cooperate with the United Commission on Evangelism of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This authorization, it seemed to some who were opposed to official contact with the Council, would have brought the Episcopalians very close to the Council. Said onetime (1922-27) Senator-from-Pennsylvania George Wharton Pepper, of the House of Deputies: "The advantages of membership in this council are, to my mind, highly exaggerated...
...under way that we are plunged into a controversy like this. We might just as well say to the other Protestant churches: 'We won't take a step to meet you; you must come all the way to meet us.' " The pro-council faction won the question...