Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...book that one does not know exactly how or where to place, but it is a book that will make history." And while talking to one of the most aristocratic old ladies that I met I asked her what she thought about it. The question seemed to embarrass her but she said: "I didn't really like the book. But I do hope it will show those northern people what our Negro really is. Of course we realize that we can't do without the Negro here in the South but you northerners have no idea...
...Last week President Hoover named three other commissions to make special investigations: 1) To advise the Government Departments on methods for revision of the statistical services for the determination of unemployment and to establish the method of co-operation between government departments and business. 2) To investigate the whole question of bankruptcy law and practice, to propose to Congress some essential reforms. 3) To study the practicability of a road from the U. S. to Alaska through and with the aid of Canada. Declared President Hoover: "To some who are anxious over the appointment of temporary committees and commissions...
Absolved. Rudolph Spreckels, San Francisco financier: of charges of "rigging the market" in Kolster radio of which he was board chairman, and withholding information from stockholders. Said Special Master in Chancery John A. Bernhard: "The question is: were Mr. Spreckels and his associates under a moral or legal duty to disclose to stockholders the disposition of their shares? ... I have concluded they were under no legal obligations...
Storybooks tell of curious old King John of England, who once amused himself by posing this question to the Abbot of Canterbury: "How soon can I ride around the world?" A clever shepherd, substituted by the baffled Abbot, answered: "You must rise with the sun and you must ride with the sun until it rises again the next morning. As soon as you do that you will have ridden around the world in 24 hours." For this stroke of sagacity the shepherd's reward was four pieces of silver per week for life...
Concluded Professor Calmette with emotion: "Let us generally adopt this vaccine! Let it be administered to all children ! The question is whether you would prefer to permit your child to be exposed to the virulent tuberculosis bacillus, which is inescapable, and let him take a chance against it unprotected, or whether you will administer a vaccine which is absolutely harmless and will in all probability make him immune from an attack of the virulent bacillus...