Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great culture has sprung and ennobles our idea of what we should be. If I could change England at all I should pray that she recognize a little more the really splendid cultivation of Americans and not be, as Englishmen are inclined to, so patronizing towards "barbarous" Americans. Your question ought really to be turned around. Why don't Englishmen visit America? Enough of us go abroad as it is. If the English would come here instead of going year after year to Scotland, or the seashore, or France for their vacations, they would learn to admire...
...printed.* There was not much in the speech that any alert publisher could not have prophesied beforehand. President Hoover's biggest project is Law Enforcement. He urged the Press to be a quick public conscience to that end. Freedom of the Press to discuss public questions is a U. S. cornerstone. President Hoover acknowledged this, adding earnestly: "I put the question, however, whether flippance is a useful or even legitimate device in such discussion. ... Its effect is as misleading and distorting of public conscience as direct misrepresentation." U. S. newspapers make crime romantic, glamorous. President Hoover suggested that they...
...harass a Cabinet officer by nipping and snapping at his ankles is the legislative pastime of not a few Senators and Congressmen. Such a nipper-snapper is Tennessee's rubicund Senator McKellar who, at the Senate's brief special session last month, raised the question of Andrew William Mellon's eligibility to serve President Hoover as Secretary of the Treasury. Always antagonistic to Secretary Mellon, Senator McKellar, by resolution, asked...
Secretary Mellon's statement so impressed the Judiciary Committee that without formal action it agreed not to question him further. Senator McKellar, however, 'thought he saw a last opportunity for nipper-snapping in the fact that Gulf Oil operates 29 "sea vessels," that as a stockholder in Gulf Oil Mr. Mellon is an "owner ... in part" of these vessels...
...late hour last night it was learned that the negative team won at New Haven on the same question...