Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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President Hoover last week took a hand to speed the Tariff Bill to final enactment. The House and Senate conferees thereon were snarled. Major items were still in dispute. The main question was: Which wing of Congress should vote first? Each side, for political reasons, wanted the other to go first, to reserve the advantage of the last word. Chiefly at stake was the export debenture plan, approved by the Senate, disapproved by the President and the House...
...arbitrator President Hoover summoned House and Senate leaders to breakfast, listened to them wrangle over the question of procedure. His desire was twofold: 1) to beat the debenture; 2) to hasten the bill to passage. To gain these ends he sided with the Senate that the House should lead in voting on the conference report. The House leaders bowed to his will, returned to the Capitol to plan for their body to pass this week on the points at issue. President Hoover was quite aware that if the House, as he confidently expected it would, again rejected the debenture plan...
...November, U. S. Secretary of War James William Good died. A month later, to take his place Patrick Jay Hurley, then Assistant Secretary of War, was selected by President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 16). A question immediately arose: who could fill the vacated Assistant Secretaryship? From that post Dwight Filley Davis had gone into the Cabinet succeeding the late Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; Mr. Hurley's elevation seemed to establish the precedent that War Department assistant secretaries are full secretaries in embryo. So, for five months the President of the U. S. weighed carefully the qualifications of candidates...
...greater part of this furor deserves a quick exit with no curtain calls. There is, however, a question of morals which is outside of all legality and upon which the most recent champions of the Scrubwomen stand. In Pome short moment when the crusading ardor is not all-powerful, "The Harvard Square Deal Association" might be reminded that any question of morality inevitably means a moral issue, not an absolute moral truth...
...most interesting phase of research revolves around the enforcement of this law. Who has seen a dry agent? The question is rhetorical; and yet, like the proverbial purple cow, most would rather see than be one. Yesterday, a youth in the back of the classroom, the New York Fraternity Club by name, waved a hand and snapped fingers for attention. According to reputable New York papers, his atmosphere is refined, suave, exclusive. His story was unique: dry agents disguised as college students had invaded his privacy, and while he was blissfully dining, had graciously, quietly removed his choicest liquors...