Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position of leadership in the world in the past has always entailed the premature burial of numbers of the nation's young men, and nobody deplores this trend more strongly than I do. The only question is this: are there other things which are worse? I think there...
...QUESTION OF THE HOUR-CAN DANZIG BE SAVED...
Another power in Danzig, Mr. Chamberlain said, could "block Poland's access to the sea and so exert an economic and military stranglehold upon her." While there was no question of "any oppression of the German population in Danzig" and the present status of the City was "not basically unjust or illogical," he believed that in a "clearer atmosphere possible improvements could be discussed...
...Pierpont Morgan groused: "If they start war, certainly my shooting will be interrupted, because everybody would rush off to do what they'd have to do and I wouldn't have anybody with me." Also sailing was the President's mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt. To the question of the hour she replied: "I don't know. I suppose so. But if it does come I'll live through...
...Heard an exciting debate between University of Iowa's George D. Stoddard and Stanford's Lewis Terman. Question: Is a child's I. Q. determined more by heredity or by environment? Dr. Stoddard reported that he had raised the I. Q.s of children of dull parents to that of children of college professors by placing them in good homes (TIME, Nov. 7). Said Dr. Terman: "If [these claims] can be substantiated, we have here the most important scientific discovery in the last thousand years. . . " Either the educational programs provided by other investigators are less stimulating than those...