Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...census enumerators, though government and welfare groups had publicized the count among the foreign-born, though appeal after appeal for cooperation had been made over the radio, great sectors of the U. S. were still ignorant of the purpose of the census, suspicious of its enumerators, reluctant to answer questions. And in city and country were countless persons quite unaware that any Census operations were going...
...Democratic chairman with insinuating questions. Democratic Senators Caraway and Walsh on the Committee stormily protested such crude and obvious political maneuvering. Spectators mocked with loud laughter. Senator Robinson asked Mr. Raskob if he did not take his Democratic chairmanship to help fight Prohibition. Cried Senator Walsh: "Don't answer that question! Don't answer it!" Senator Robinson tried to build up an "important point" by revealing the anti-Raskobism of North Carolina's Josephus Daniels, oldtime Democrat, onetime Secretary of the Navy. When Senator Robinson was forced to abandon this line due to his ignorance of Mr. Daniels' career, spectators...
...Thomas Beecham, famed orchestral conductor, son of the potent pill tycoon, read in a London newspaper last week that he had been fined ?10 ($50) for failing to answer a summons...
Last fortnight brought the first definite answer to the Koutiepoff riddle. La Liberté, Parisian evening daily, published a special edition, charged that six days earlier General Alexander Paul Koutiepoff was seen battered but still alive in a cell in Moscow's Loubianskaia prison...
...radio listeners all over the world. It was Dr. Welch's 80th birthday party. To uphold the ancient custom of birthday present-giving the committee in charge of the celebration was hard put. No degrees could they give Dr. Welch; he had 18. Medals would not answer; he had plenty of them. On other occasions he had been given the presidencies of most of the prominent medical societies, had been decorated a number of times by foreign governments. Final decision: a dry point etching by Alfred Hutty. Print No. 1 went to Dr. Welch. The rest of the edition...