Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whether Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was then waging an undeclared war of sabotage on the U. S. was the issue in the famed, long-lived Black Tom and Kingsland Cases. Last week no less an adjudicator than Supreme Court Justice Owen Josephus Roberts found that Germany 1) did indeed war by sabotage on the U. S. and other neutrals; 2) caused the Black Tom and Kingsland disasters (killing three men and a child) ; and 3) by continuously presenting perjured testimony, through its Foreign Office officials tried to hide the proof of its guilt. Therefore, said he, Germany must...
Warrior Lewis was asked whether, as reported, C. I. O. plans to invade the vast construction field, which up to now has belonged almost exclusively to A. F. of L. and has long given the Federation its dominant leadership. "No comment," said he abruptly enough to keep the report alive...
...Believing that the primary end of a liberal college is the education of its students, and that the core of a good education is a competent and experienced staff of teachers, the Harvard Chapter of P. B. K. questions strongly whether the recent termination of the appointments of ten assistant professors can be reconciled with that...
...week in Philadelphia a Protestant group took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and displayed capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that: "No group, whether racial, nationalistic or ecclesiastical, should be allowed to place its own interests above the public weal or to exercise a disproportionate control of public affairs...
Although it all happened about 40 years ago, Gogarty remembers everything as if it were last night. The reader's problem is whether to admire most Gogarty's memory or his imagination. "An Irishman," says Gogarty, "believes best in what he knows to be untrue...