Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week a great & good friend of Calvin Coolidge disturbed Washington by crying "guts." Declared Seattle's Kenneth Mackintosh, member of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement: "I shall insist that the Commission go to the guts of this whole Prohibition question...
Carefully avoided in the Stimson speech was Prohibition, prime question before the Albany convention. No credit was claimed even for the President's appointment of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. When the keynoting Secretary mentioned the fine work of Dwight Whitney Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico, the delegates applauded long and loud. Mr. Morrow is a thoroughgoing Republican Wet and the New Yorkers were about to demand repeal of the 18th Amendment. Likewise Statesman Stimson had very little to say about government economy, because Federal expenditures have increased to offset unemployment. The World Court was disposed...
...State," found guilty, shot. Usually such executions are announced in tiny type on inside pages of Soviet papers. But last week the Government ordered big black headlines, first-page position. So breathlessly fast did events move, so blatantly sincere and joyous seemed popular response to the shootings, that all question of whether the dead men could possibly have provoked a general famine vanished from the realm of practical politics. Point of the savage affair seemed to be that it offered fresh, significant proof of Ivan Ivanovitch's present pressing concern to fill his belly. If food were even fairly...
...question of human distress is a matter of degree only," philosophized The Miller. "In that the export of wheat enables Russia to buy machinery and other merchandise, her increased grain sales may be considered a cause of gratification. There are citizens in the United States-the most prosperous country in the world-who lack food and clothing and other necessities of life, yet America can export when and how and at what price she likes without any cry of 'crime' being raised...
With the announcement that turnstiles and a bronze barrier are being constructed to facilitate the increased precautions which the library has taken to prevent the great losses of books occurring with increased regularity during the last few years, it is hoped that this question of major importance can at last be settled with satisfactory results...