Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...struggled excitedly over the issue (see p. 16). Dry leaders reminded him of their assistance in his election two years ago, implored him to reward them now with a resounding declaration in their behalf. But the President only shook his head, told them voters would have to settle the question for themselves without any White House guidance...
Back from a month-long vacation in the Adirondacks, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson had last week to compete in a strange diplomatic race. The question was that of granting recognition to the three new governments which military revolutions had ushered in in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia. Though the Argentine Government was little over a week old, the powers of Europe were falling over one another to recognize the new regime and thereby gain prestige, economic advantages. France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Scandinavian countries had already resumed normal diplomatic relations and Great Britain, chief U. S. rival in Argentina...
...when New Jersey Republicans nominated Dwight Whitney Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, for the U. S. Senate (TIME, June 30). Until he opened his primary campaign, Mr. Morrow had no public record on Prohibition. In his first address he declared for repeal of the 18th Amendment and return of the question to the States. Unlike numerous Wet demagogs in both parties who feast publicly on the bones of Dry mistakes, he did not rant and roar against Prohibition. He discussed it with cool-headed dispassion and dignity. He tried to un- scramble morals from government, warned of the Federal Government...
Though Mr. Morrow was talking literally of machinery, his words were equally applicable to the effect of Prohibition on political machines, which understand themselves even less than each other. Party organizations in many a State are rent and torn by the liquor question. The Washington State Republican convention went abruptly Wet last May while the State's Republican Senator Wesley Livsey Jones was glittering most brightly as a Dry. The New York G. O. P., about to nominate a Governor, jiggled about last week in frantic uncertainty. Massachusetts Republicans last week concluded a fierce Wet-&-Dry primary fight (see page...
...still unsettled question of the future housing of undergraduates in the Engineering School hangs fire. When it was finally decided that engineering students would not become regular members of the new Houses those who had already been accepted were allowed to take part this year. No solution has yet been acted upon; the last definite statement asserted that the House Plan would be limited to the College alone...