Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose to question the War Secretary one day last week. What of the visit young Edmund Ironside (15-year-old Tonbridge schoolboy, son of Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff) had recently made to France? Was this not stretching privilege? Would the sons of privates be permitted to visit their fathers at the front...
That popular opinion is divided on that question quickly became manifest. Some sports writers applauded, some raised eyebrows. Chicago reprinted and sent to its alumni an article in The American Mercury by John R. Tunis, who described many a shady practice, charged that U. S. college football was "an unsavory racket...
...stormy days of the Reorganization debate could answer in the affirmative. The Court will be on in the minds of the people, and that which the people desire and reverence will retain elements of real power. But in what direction will it be exercised? That is the real question. And the answer lies, it may safely be ventured, in a parallel query: what will be the future relationship between the executive and the legislative branches of government...
...Such a question is not as irrelevant as it would at first seem. A history of at least the last 25 years of American government could be written around the bureaucrat's encroachment on the sphere of the representative legislature. The New Deal did not start administrative legislation. It perfected a system which began with the first regulative commission in the roaring sixties. Congress could not pass laws to provide for every possible eventuality. It had to give wide discretion to the men who administered the laws...
...answer to a question on the present state of the war. Mr. Lewis said: "I regretted the resignation of Mr. Hore Belisha, because 1 felt that his resignation signified the abandonment of the "static war," so called, which among other people regarded as the bestrategy...