Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...annoying indications of impatience and lack of confidence on the part of the American public by statesmen at London. Moreover, the worth of the petition as an effective weapon of public opinion in remedying unsatisfactory conditions is extremely doubtful. Secretary Stimson, however, in announcing that the petitions in question have no basis is allowing his irritation to transgress the saner view of the situation which he could well afford to take. Although no responsibility can be directly imputed to the American delegation, proceedings at the conference did at one time take a turn temporarily alarming to observers eagerly awaiting progress...
Preliminary trials for the Pasteur Debate will be held on April 15 at 8 o'clock in Sever 36. The question is: "Resolved, That the policy of France at the 1930 Naval Conference was justifiable...
Strietly speaking, Phrohibition is not a college issue. When the Harvard CRIMSON asks "What can college men do about Prohibition?" the obvious answer is "very little." The national aspects of the question are so large as to render ineffectual the small, shrill voice of the colleges. College debates, discussions, and petitions calling for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendmen' while they may be interesting, carry little weight. They indicate, however, that the educated youth of the country has an intelligent interest in the question. Harvard's movement in encourage such interest is therefore commendable...
Meanwhile, as to the Debating Council Plan, the only question I would raise concerns Item 4. How could such education be carried out except by a Bureau of Propaganda that should have no place in our system of government? Very truly yours, Kenneth W. Payne, Editorial Director, The North American Review...
...sale of such beverages. The only solution is to repeal the amendment and the Volstead Act both, which I am confident will be done. I have kept calm through the whole agitation and get a lot of amusement out of the rows in the newspapers because I consider the question as having been settled before it arose...