Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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President Hoover last week had back on his hands one of the oldest and thorniest disputes between the Army and Navy. The question: where, in coast defense, does naval aviation stop and military aviation begin? It was the kind of controversy that President Hoover, as commander-in-chief of both services, could not refer to an expert commission for settlement because all the experts? officers of the Army and Navy?were already professionally prejudiced...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, which voices professional contempt for Macfaddism, commented: "Possibly . . . this is just a start and we may later find the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce considering the question of abandoning the name of 'Golden Gate' for 'Albert Abrams Bay.' Los Angeles businessmen might very properly recommend changing the name of Santa Monica Mountains to the 'I-on-a-co Mountains' in honor of their late-lamented citizen, Gaylord Wilshire. The conception has infinite possibilities. Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga might readily be called 'Mount Cardui,' while Nahant...
...April 26: Secret advices today are to the effect that the Italian fleet is ordered to Fiume and the army is told to advance toward it. Our navy there is advised to hold all their men aboard ship. . . . The question came up of Herbert Hoover as a Presidential candidate-Democratic. Mr. Baruch seems to think he wants...
...have a companion when he goes to mass. Observed L'Osservatore Romano: "In a college where receptions are given at which Protestant girls are present; where there are cinema shows with the usual falsifications against the Papacy; where swimming is indulged in with ultra-modern conceptions on the question of surveillance, the excuse that the students have no one to accompany them to Mass seems secondary when it comes to fulfilling the act of devotion...
...Lakes steamers, plus the usual amount of soda fountains, scows, refrigerators, machinery. At present retail domestic automobile notes form the largest single item (29.54%) among C. I. T.'s receivables. Last December, however, this business formed 36.71% of the whole. The reduction did not occur because of any question in Mr. Ittleson's mind as to the desirability of receivables covering the purchase of automobiles but because auto mobile production and sales fell so far behind last year that the same amount of business...