Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a personal postscript to this. Christmas Eve 1922 my father was called to the telephone. A friend asked whether he might bring along for dinner a German here on a lecture tour and stranded on Christmas Eve with no place...
...Roosevelt has said that the duty of the U. S. neutrality patrol is to keep tabs on far-roving warcraft in American waters. His obvious, implicit premise last week was that submarines, since the sneaky creatures cannot be watched, had best be kept clear away. When a reporter asked whether armed merchant ships also might be barred from U. S. ports, the President said that comparing such ships and submarines was like trying to add pears and apples. Orally amplifying his proclamation, he explained that belligerent submarines may not come within the traditional three-mile limit of U. S. coasts...
...correspondent asked Mr. Roosevelt whether the Administration's known intent to ask Congress for still more money for a bigger Big Navy means that he favors a "two-ocean navy." That phrase, said the President, is a beautiful slogan, meaningless in practice. Then he turned to a press-conference guest, Publisher Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News, said the same thing applies to that gentleman's favorite epigram ("Two Ships For One"). What the U. S. must have, the President went on, is a Navy big enough for its maximum, varying defense needs in any ocean...
...make such insertions. Under such threats from Colorado's Martin, Connecticut's Miller, he "withdrew" the letter, which had been in the hands of the 50,000 Record readers for eight days. The Butte doctor said he had had the "Col. House" letter printed to find out whether it was true, then reverted to his regular theme, told reporters...
Afterward, the Rev. Mr. Wilson confessed that he had wondered as he recited the prayer, whether its reference to "enemies" would be taken to mean the King's enemies in war. He hoped not, said Dr. Wilson; he had read a peacetime prayer denoting spiritual, moral and material obstacles to Christian faith. The English Church has more militant prayers for victory...