Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Refreshing in its simplicity and in its contrast with senatorial committees is the intelligent method with which Professor Glueck of the Harvard Law School approaches the question. In an exhaustive analysis of 500 criminal careers, which has recently been published in book form, his attitude is more that of the psychiatrist than of the investigator of the chamber-room. Using the scientific method of induction he has sifted a huge mass of material into eight specific conclusions, all of them at variance with the accepted code of procedure in penal institutions...
Barrymore plays the part of the gallant, and still quite romantic, Count, who has lost his rightful domains because of some question of certificates. He is the son of a famous war-lord and a gypsy dancer, and maintains the reputation of both to the best of his ability. His main feats are saving the remains of a rapidly degenerating Hapsburg Empire through the medium of his mercenary soldiers, insulting an emperor and jilting an arch-duchess, marrying a gypsy girl (the trait seems to run in the family) with a rather lax set of morals, destroying the Hapsburg Empire...
...thundered: "The Reichsbank is concerned primarily with whether the Young Plan rests on a moral basis. It does not! The only way to make the world respect the integrity of the Reichsbank is for the Reichsbank to refuse to enter into this immoral agreement. But it is now a question of law! I must obey German law or emigrate. It is suggested that I ought to resign. I will not resign to please anybody. I will resign only if I am wrong. I will continue to obey German...
...effect, told us [on the eve of the General Election] that if we didn't do what he wanted we would get no money. But even if the Liberal party can clear itself of its dependence upon Mr. Lloyd George's money there is still the question of our want of confidence in his leadership...
...Secretary of the Treasury, this article had been submitted before publication. Of it, beneath the Treasury's seal, he had written: ". . . interesting and comprehensive. . . . It is appropriate that the first issue of this new magazine of business should devote so much space to a study of this important question...