Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Declared Owen D. Young, Radio's executive committee chairman: "Certainly if there be anything illegal in the set-up of the Radio Corp., its officers, directors and stockholders are more deeply interested in that question than either the Government or any other group. ... It is very glad, therefore, that a test case has been brought. It prefers to have such a question out of politics...
...candidate for the office of United States Senator. ... I am sensible of the great honor. ... If I am elected to the Senate, my only obligation will run to the voters of the State and my own conscience. . . . Tonight I am going to discuss Prohibition [loud applause]. It is a question which constantly confuses moral principles with the art of government. . . . "It is not my purpose to discuss the merits of Prohibition as a policy. That is not the issue. The issue is whether it is practicable and in the public interest to apply that policy to the United States...
...does not mention the problem of the native states, or the fact that less than 10 percent of the people are literate, according to latest statistics. Language differences (which he euphemistically terms "dialectical"), and rigid caste barriers will be removed, he says, in the future. "It is only a question of time." Perhaps so; but the British authorities have repeatedly promised India ultimate complete self government, to be granted by installments, and the only question is her present readiness...
...country of its intention to slash the prices of popular books from $2.50 and $2.00 to $1.00 is likely to lead to a considerable upset in the industry in general. By some it is interpreted as a temporary strategic move on the part of the publisher in question to drive into the ground the large amount of competition from small firms which has grown up under the protective wing of monopoly prices. Still others think the change once adopted will be permanent. Book publishing has the character of a monopoly industry, and consequently prices have always been a question...
...question of morals which necessarily intrudes its presence into birth control theory involves an issue upon which tradition and "enlightenment" sharply divide. The younger generation regards the whole matter in two separate classes. As applied to individual cases, they argue that the matter is one of private morals and refuse to brook the intrusion of legislation into a matter upon which it is ill-fitted to judge...