Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought seriously of a rearmament program last year when Congress ordered the Navy Department to report on the need for new naval bases. Early this month when Congress got that report, everyone had heard plenty about rearmament. And last week one item on that program raised a major question of policy...
...dredge the harbor at Apra, make the island usable for planes. His real purpose was clarified by his secretariat, which approvingly referred to Columnist Walter Lippmann: "Congress should authorize the fortification of Guam, and then the State Department should invite the Japanese to discuss the question." (A U. S. threat to fortify Guam helped to win Japan's agreement to the 5-5-3 naval ratio and the stipulation against further fortifications in the Pacific which were embodied in the Washington Treaty...
...When the question of prevailing wages was raised for steel, Secretary Frances Perkins' Public Contracts Board recommended hourly wage minima of 45? in the South, 62½? elsewhere. Independent companies kicked up a great row; U. S. Steel, already paying as much or more, was contentedly silent. Last week, Assistant Secretary of Labor Charles V. McLaughlin finally set the scale for the industry: 45? in 13 Southern States, 58½? in seven Midwestern States, 60? in eleven Western States, 62½? in the East...
...take me too seriously," the Deputy said. "I am not asking you to make war on Britain, but we ought to clear up a question that threatens to compromise French rights. We have occupation of factories, occupation of the Rhineland, occupation of Ethiopia and now part of French Somaliland and, finally, of the Minquiers Islands. Nobody has ever done anything about any of them...
...Trotskyist-Bukharinist traitors," will not be repeated. Then some 1,000,000 census-takers set out to make a house-to-house canvass Many thought that the figures turned up then showed: 1) a decrease in population; 2) too many Russians to be religiously minded for Soviet comfort. No question regarding religious belief or disbelief will be asked in the present census, nor will Soviet citizens again be allowed to list themselves as prostitutes, lackeys or tramps. Soviet citizens will be occupationally grouped under broader terms. The classification for priests is "servitor of a cult"; for one who doesn...