Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boettiger last week pre-announced on her "Homemaker" page in her husband's Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "PRELUDE TO THE MARCH ARRIVAL OF A NEW CITIZEN. . . . My husband, my mother and I ... made plans for the looked-forward-to arrival of my mother's newest grandchild. The biggest question was, could mother arrange to be on the spot to help usher into the world a new citizen for Seattle...
...biggest unsettled labor question in the U. S. is whether A. F. of L. and C. I. O. shall remarry or else forever go their separate ways. The matchmaker, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, last week merely wisecracked as she parried questions...
...much to ask that we today preserve the individual liberties that to us have been sacred American heritage? Upon the answer of that question, ladies and gentlemen, rests the future of America. Upon it rests the maintenance and growth of democracy; upon it rests the future of civilization...
However, the actual extent of the repudiation of the New Deal is questionable. In many cases, including the important Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Massachusetts elections, local issues or personalities greatly obscured the New Deal question, and frequently the latter was not put at all. Furthermore, the Democratic losses are partly the normal mid term reaction, considerably accentuated by the fact that Americans do not like depressions. Finally, the repudiation is not generally that of liberal New Deal principles, which were endorsed since many Republican standard-bearers were fully committed to such untraditional doctrines as social security, collective bargaining, farm and unemployed...
Final returns on the referendum gave 21,182 'No' votes to 20,188 'Yes' votes, a margin or defeat of 1,294. Approximately 5,700 ballots had no vote on the Plan E charter question. The total registration for election...