Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When these statements appeared in the press, newsgatherers at once sought to question Cary Travers Grayson M. D., the naval physician whom Woodrow Wilson raised to a Rear-Admiral's rank and kept beside him at the White House. But Dr. Grayson was inaccessible in Europe. From the late President's daughters-Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo-came no statements. The President's widow was inaccessible in the Orient...
...Prohibition's bravest champion. Having complained that the District of Columbia is a pretty wet spot which the President of the U. S., as chief District officer, might easily dry, up and having elicited a White House statement ("The President is glad the Senator has raised the question") asking for specific charges (TIME, Sept. 30). Senator Howell arose again and said: ''It seems to me that the President was a little unfair . . . to call upon me 'to state definite facts, with time and place.' . . . I have not come in contact with a bootlegger...
...behalf. He had resigned (for as long as necessary) from the $100,000-per-year presidency of International Harvester Co. ($350,000,000) to accept President Hoover's appointment as $12,000-per-year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether he was fit for the job. It was the chance of a session if not of a Senatorial term for such friends-of-the-farmer as Montana's Wheeler, North Dakota's Frazier, South Dakota's Norbeck, Iowa's Brookhart, South Carolina...
Such is the story the Bible tells with artistic realism. Carefully the National Sunday School Union substituted "tempted him to do evil" rather than give the exact words of the wife of Potiphar. Question: Does the substitution help...
...story of Ruth. One of the most dramatic and colorful scenes in all literature is the description of her entering the threshing room at night, creeping to where the mighty farmer Boaz lay drunken on a pile of corn, softly snuggling herself to sleep at his feet. Question: Would a child suspect evil...