Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Usually exhibiting "microphilic" symptoms, TIME editors left me harassed by the question: 'Why the sneezing, suffix escu attached to Rumanian names...
Last week the U. S. Supreme Court ruled on two cases called in question by the Department of Justice. A lower court had decided that the arbitration provision was coercive, denying theatre-owners their right to free, competitive trade under the anti-trust laws. It had decided that the clause requiring theatre-owners to assume predecessors' obligations was not in vio lation of that same...
...motion was made during the Association's 1918 convention that a resolution be passed urging the States not to ratify the 18th Amendment. Another motion to postpone consideration of the question was carried 75 to 68. Thereafter the matter was carefully avoided, although many a State and city bar association went on record opposing constitutional Prohibition, including: New Jersey, Nevada, Virginia; San Francisco, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, New York...
...Biographer Laver reproduces a ruthless cross-section, adds a few to the collection. Though the expatriate Whistler never wholly succeeded in acclimatizing himself in England, though he always regarded the British as Philistines, called them "the Islanders," Laver gives an instance of how super-English Whistler became on the question of money. He once presented a bill for 2.000 guineas. His client thought the price excessive; the bill was finally settled for £1,000. But to Whistler "the difference between a pound and a guinea was not the difference between twenty shillings and twenty-one, but the difference between...
...newspaper has been forced to resign by the student governing body because of his editorials accusing Southern California of using professionals on its football team. Cambridge is too far away from such controversies to know whether there is any justification for the statements of the California editor, but the question as to the desirability of a body to control the policies of all student organizations is one which occurs at every college...