Word: whethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart of the question which Congress is now going to debate is whether the repeal or the retention of the embargo on arms is the more likely to lead the United States into the war. It is evident that it is impossible for the advocates of either policy to prove their case conclusively. . . . The best that Congress can hope to do now is to adopt that policy which, on a cool estimate of the probabilities as we know them today, seems the least likely to have consequences which will put us in a difficult and dangerous position later...
When war broke out, Spencer was officially informed by Cambridge that it was up to him whether or not he should go to England this Fall. But in view of unofficial Information that "there would be no one there to teach," he applied for a year's leave of absence from his new post, and was granted a one-year temporary appointment here...
Directors of the Whitney Museum did not know whether they were more tickled over their sensational new indirect lighting system, their four new rooms, a new central staircase and widened halls, or the 118 paintings, 53 pieces of sculpture, 31 water colors, 29 drawings and 57 prints by 20th Century American artists. Dawdling gallerygoers, who could scarcely tell when night fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey...
...Every effort consistent with the news itself is to be made to avoid horror, suspense and undue excitement. . . . For example, news of air-raid alarms should not be broadcast until we actually learn whether or not there has been an air raid...
...ASCAP, lock, stock & Alley, for $20,000,000. NAB thought the price too stiff. But since then radio has paid ASCAP some $30,000,000 in license fees (a flat 5% of net receipts on all programs) and sustaining fees, arbitrarily set and ranging from $100 to $15,000 whether the stations use ASCAP music...