Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Weaslers. Sitting on the fence itself are the weaslers whose catchpenny slogan is "Law Enforcement." They actively avoid a binding stand on the basic question as long as possible. A referendum weasler is Senator Metcalf who puts off a declaration of his position until he sees how his Rhode Island votes this year. The "neutral" weasler who says...
Commissioner Coulter was chief economic adviser to the old Commission. Commissioners Page and Dennis had both served on earlier tariff boards. The question of why the President did not appoint bigger and better men to elevate the new Commission above the old, as he had promised, was answered by the fact that a score of distinguished economists and business experts had declined appointment for fear of personal abuse during confirmation by the Senate. Unappointed was the third Democratic commissioner. Democrats immediately charged President Hoover with "rank and inexcusable partisanship" in holding up this last appointment while a high-tariff Republican...
...very strong impression is that in the United States, just as in Canada, while there is very great interest taken in the Indian question, interest takes the form of greatly wishing to learn more about the facts. I do not at all share the view that there is any prejudice...
...Despite the election results, I do not for a moment perceive a menace to the Republican constitution, the public safety or the foreign policy. It is absolutely out of the question that the radical parties that emerged victors at the polls should be given a chance to try out their recipes for government...
...There is no question but that the X-ray tubes can be materially improved and made more powerful. We now produce X-rays of from 6,000 to 250,000 volts and, if we went to 400,000 volts, we could get practically radium rays from an X-ray tube. We know results would be better. But we cannot go that high, for we lack tubes to stand it, and so far no one has dared to tackle their development because of the patent monopoly...