Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...buildings of a most colorful epoch must make way for newer developments. But aside from this sentimental attitude that forgets all of the bad plumbing, and the creaking floors, there is a very palpable point which should not be overlooked. With this new sale about to be negotiated, the question is, what is the attitude of the University going...
...engine cleaner who as Lord Privy Seal and Minister of Employment has conspicuously failed to solve the unemployment problem (TIME, June 17, 1929, et seq.), had resigned. After appointing him Minister of Dominions,* last week, the Prime Minister penned these graceful words for the Laborite Daily Herald: "The grave question of unemployment . . . has suddenly increased to intensity all the world over, owing to causes beyond the control of this, or, indeed, of any single nation. The problem is different in kind and degree from that which faced us [the Cabinet] when we came in a year ago, and is much...
Interesting, also, was the question of the Royal Dutch quid pro quo. The Royal Dutch statement, said that it had contributed its "experience" and certain unspecified patents under its control. There had been no previous mention of Royal Dutch patents comparable to the hydrogenation treatment. Meanwhile, however, Royal Dutch emphatically denied any general alliance with Standard and I. G. F., insisted that the shared patent implied no lessening of competition, no understandings on the division of the world-petroleum trade...
...purchase of Sheet & Tube stock through Mr. Murphy's brokerage house (G. M. P. Murphy & Co.). Many a legal objection to the deal is based on the extent and nature of stock-buying by promerger forces before the stockholders' meeting (TIME, April 21). More significant than the question of the $1,000,000 salary, this testimony will feature the opening of Mr. Eaton's latest suit to enjoin the merger, in Youngstown, next week...
...written a lively, whimsical, improbable but satirical yarn in which his hand is evident but not quite evident enough. The chapter-headings, take-offs on an old tradition, are obviously Perelman-propounded. Example: "The foundling on the priory steps-In which an ankle is sprained and a question asked-A pitcher is sent to the well and traded to the Braves-The long arm of coincidence rears its ugly head and in its hand is a hammer -An inkling about the foundling...