Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition question was injected into the otherwise tranquil conference by a letter from Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the National Law Enforcement Commission to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York in which Mr. Wickersham proposed an enforcement scheme whereby the U. S. would deal with wholesale bootleggery, the States with the retail trade. He hinted at modification to make the law "reasonably enforceable...
...come from a State that rocked me in its cradle of States' rights and I stand for States' rights but the question of States' rights is not involved here. It is in the Constitution. ... I come from the great Democratic State of South Carolina but . . . the Republican party has given us a great President and I believe he is going down in history as one of the greatest Presidents [because] he stands for civic righteousness and enforcement of the law. ... I want to make this statement fearlessly while I stand on my feet: The great South...
...Question: "Is it true . . . that manufacturers care nothing about the rates in the Tariff Bill as long as they can get what they want in the administrative sections...
...Modernist Movement. That movement seeks to be loyal to the Church but it also seeks to be loyal to TRUTH." Said still another Bishop: "So do we all." Thereupon the Bishops returned their attentions to the business of the day. Unexpected and most disturbing was the point-blank question put to the Bishops by the Rev. Edward Lyttelton, onetime headmaster of Eton, who demanded to know immediately what they thought about birth control- Said Dr. Lyttelton: "If contraception is not wrong in many cases it must be right. Will any pastor say this from his pulpit? Will any bishop...
...Bastille Day (July 14), French Ambassador Paul Claudel addressed the convention, said: "I ... feel impelled to raise the same question as did General Gouraud eleven years ago in Metz. And speaking with a loud voice above your heads, I address myself to the soldiers of France, not only to the living, but to the thousands and tens of thousands of dead, and I say: 'Soldiers of France, you have seen the men of the Rainbow Division, you lived with them, you fought with them, you died with them and you won with them. What do you think of them...