Word: questions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Consumers' View. An immediate question was: What effect will this bill, if and when enacted, have upon the cost of living? Such politicians as Massachusetts' Senator Walsh were quick to raise the old cry of "outrageous and exorbitant duties on food products," to predict direful increases in household expenses. More practical men, outside of Congress and familiar with food distribution and the tariff's effect upon it, were ready to believe that the retail buyer would not see much change in his meat and grocery bills. Operations between producer and consumer by the much-maligned Middle-Man would, experts explained...
...Coney Island, broke ground for a new subway, endorsed National Hospital Day, held his 6-year-old nephew Paul Burke on his knee at City Hall while the lad was publicly immunized against diphtheria to the boom of flashlights, prepared to attend the Kentucky Derby. Also, he pondered this question: Should he take an eagerly-offered renomination from Tammany in the primary next September, and be faced with the certain prospect of four years more in New York's antique City Hall or should he, at the peak of his political success, step grandly...
...Geneva Council. At first it was planned to include the United States, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey. However, it has been suggested that League procedure might be followed more closely and interesting situations might arise if these five countries the formally admitted in subsequent meetings. The Bolivia-Paraguay question will be the subject under discussion as the first conference...
...clock, the discussion will continue and the question will be voted upon. Finally, Professor W.Y. Wiliott will address the gathering, criticising the procedure...
...never been a sin at Harvard to think for oneself and in the particularly violent times directly following the war, many politically unorthodox professors found their sole defense in the President's office. Harvard men were to be allowed the right to hear both sides of a question even if one of these sides were branded as high treason by a majority of alumni. Of all the achievements which the last twenty years have seen-in Cambridge perhaps the greatest is this sturdy maintenance of an honored tradition of rugged Yankee independence...