Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest Gallup poll on Franklin Roosevelt. Results snowed: 1) that the President was only slightly less popular with its respondents than on Election Day, 1936, but 2) that 70% of them are now against electing him for a third term. Results of previous Gallup polls on the question of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt...
...Board of Tax Appeals office in New York. Finding that Reynard Corp. had been formed to accumulate earnings instead of distributing them, and was thus liable under a 1918 statute to an additional tax of 50% of its net income, the Board ruled that for 1932, the year in question, Reynard Corp. should have paid $26,064.02 instead of $4,688.94, ordered Reynard Corp. to produce the difference forthwith. Commented Judge Sam B. Hill of the Board of Tax Appeals: "Mr. Fox looks a little foxy himself...
...morning by a private and patriotic person who told me that Germany, Italy and Japan were on the point of making a joint declaration of war against this country, that several parts of the dominions were to be distributed according to plan, and that this was not a question of weeks, but of immediate days. It required some resolution on my part to assure my caller that this war would not start before the next morning and he might, therefore, retire...
...shape of the hypersphere, the universe must be "open"-i.e., infinite. Some theorists have suggested that the universe may not be spherical but hyperbolic-closed at one end, open at the other. The erection of Caltech's 200-inch telescope in California may possibly settle the question...
Monsignor Michael Cline: "Life suffers more from monotony than from adventure. Risk is only censurable when it is too big for the one who undertakes it. ... The lady in question failed to draw the line between a legitimate risk and a foolhardy plunge. ... My opinion of the lady is that expressed by Wordsworth: All too good for human nature's daily food...