Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent expropriations have forced Secretary of State Cordell Hull to face the question of whether the U. S. could continue to spare the rod without spoiling the neighbor. He decided on a verbal spanking, denied that it must be forcible...
Therefore Mr. Hull requested that Mexico arbitrate (under the multilateral Pan-American arbitration treaty of 1929): 1) the question whether it has complied with international law ("It is the considered judgment, however, of the United States that the Government of Mexico has not complied"); 2) the amounts and terms by which Mexico will make good. In short, for Washington no more...
...newshawk who popped that indelicate question three weeks ago, Franklin Roosevelt replied: Better consult an astrologer...
...question for meteorologists and geologists was, what caused this wall of water which, if it had occurred at sea, would have been called a "tidal wave"? Engineers of the U. S. Lake Survey at Detroit advanced several hypotheses. One was that the wave had been kicked up by a high wind or thundersquall in midlake...
...Lewis in a constellation of Oxford poets whose brightest star was Wystan Hugh Auden. Few watchers knew, however, that in addition to writing leftish lyrics, Poet Lewis also wrote detective stories under the name of Nicholas Blake-well-plotted affairs such as There's Trouble Brewing and A Question of Proof. This week, his latest murder mystery appeared with both his name and pseudonym on the jacket. This may have been self-protection, for The Beast Must Die revolves around a writer of mystery stories whose carefully guarded pseudonym gets him into no end of trouble...