Word: questions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no question about what the result would be. There should be one city in the country that could be cleaned...
...President is glad the Senator has raised the question. He is confident that the Senator would not make these charges unless they were based upon definite facts with time and place, and if he will lay any such information before the Department of Justice, the President will have the matters vigorously investigated, for it is the intention not only to secure the fullest enforcement in the District possible under the organization of enforcement agencies as provided by law, but to make it a model in the country...
...Insofar as we have any opinion in the matter, it is our belief that, in speaking generally, these power companies are abstaining and should continue to abstain from intervention in the decision of this question and should loyally cooperate in the decision of the public authorities when that decision has been arrived...
More extraordinary, the announcement that J. P. Morgan & Co. so far as it knew had taken no position ? that "speaking generally" its power companies were believed to be abstaining from intervening in the question of public ownership -won the approval of Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer of Manhattan; Mr. Untermeyer, famed orchid-wearing epicure, son of a "Virginia planter who served in the Confederate Army" (his paragraph in Who's Who) is not a man ordinarily to be found aligned with the House of Morgan and the power companies. Now 71, he has been an active lawyer for more than...
...soon in the fall that a student has only time to register and attend the first meetings of his class before he finds himself taking a series of examinations. The difficulties which have arisen from a haphazard method of notification can easily be eliminated in the future but the question of whether the dates of the examinations have been wisely set raises a more controversial point...