Word: answers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Presidency changed him?" asked Will Irwin, Republican campaign publicist, of his good friend Herbert Hoover in an article in the May American. His answer: "Not that...
What the Lobby Committee sought particular light on was the apparent discrepancy of $48,000 between the $65,300 Mr. Jameson reported giving Bishop Cannon and the $17,300 Bishop Cannon reported receiving from Mr. Jameson. The answer seemed to lie in a telegram sent Mr. Jameson by Bishop Cannon after the Campaign when Congress was calling for final expenditure reports: AFTER CAREFUL EXAMINATION RECORDS THINK STATEMENT SHOULD BE QUOTE PAID HEADQUARTERS COMMITTEE ANTI-SMITH DEMOCRATS $17,300; PAID VIRGINIA COMMITTEE ANTI-SMITH DEMOCRATS $48,000 UNQUOTE...
...nature of this proposed tribunal was clearer when Mr. Baruch added: "No repressive, inquisitorial, mediocre bureau will answer; we must have a new concept for this purpose, a tribunal vested, like the Supreme Court, with so much prestige and dignity that our greatest business leaders will be glad to divest themselves of any personal interest in business and there serve. . . . Its deliberations should be in the open and should be wholly scientific...
Last year he had joined the chorus and, like the unhappy swain in the mouthwash advertisements, received no answer. This year he refused to waste his breath. Reason: he is the world's last heath cock. All his fellows and all heath hens are dead. This heath fowl, a North American grouse, is a close relative of the prairie chicken and about the same size. A mottled grey, his protective coloring makes him practically invisible among the scrub oaks which he frequents. Plenteous 75 years ago, the birds dwindled until 1907 when protective measures were taken. By 1916 they...
...latter half of Passion Week, and, working on a firm historical and biblical foundation, Mr. Morison proceeds by deductive reasoning to solve the mystery of the stone. At times the story is intensely absorbing, then again it becomes dull because of the slow and pedantic mauncy in which the answer is finally reached. The author is too much of a scholar to keep up the vivid and interesting style of the early chapters...