Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week the Senate revived the Muscle Shoals question, in three days passed (45 to 23) another bill for Government operation, sent it to the House for concurrence...
Railroad officials, lawyers and lobbyists jostled one another unceremoniously last week to crowd into the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee Room for the opening of a great investigation. Subject of the investigation: Railroad holding companies. Prime question: Who owns which railroads...
These facts did not satisfy Senator Robinson. He tried to snare the Democratic chairman with insinuating questions. Democratic Senators Caraway and Walsh on the Committee stormily protested such crude and obvious political maneuvering. Spectators mocked with loud laughter. Senator Robinson asked Mr. Raskob if he did not take his Democratic chairmanship to help fight Prohibition. Cried Senator Walsh: "Don't answer that question! Don't answer it!" Senator Robinson tried to build up an "important point" by revealing the anti-Raskobism of North Carolina's Josephus Daniels, oldtime Democrat, onetime Secretary of the Navy. When Senator Robinson was forced...
...London the Royal Commission on Civil Service sat pompously on the question of Englishwomen who, by keeping their nuptials secret, circumvent the law requiring them to resign as Civil Servants when they marry...
...martyr said "even went so far-a savage act-as in cold blood [to] wound us with their nails, which are extremely sharp, in the most tender and sensitive parts of the body." Eventually all eight were despatched by the Indians, several with tomahawks. There is no question of the heroic circumstances of their deaths. But many an American has been tomahawked. What miracles did the eight perform...