Word: whether
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Transgression. Many a citizen wondered whether the Lobby Committee had not transgressed even senatorial privilege when it examined another potent Eastern banker, Fred I. Kent, director of Bankers Trust Co. of Manhattan. In a public speech Banker Kent had blamed the Senate and the Democratic-Insurgent Republican coalition for the stockmarket break. The four members of that coalition on the Lobby Committee (Caraway, Walsh, Elaine. Borah) made for Banker Kent in rough-and-tumble fashion...
...person who buys a drink of liquor from, a bootlegger and does not make a report to the authorities has committed a felony and is equally guilty as the person making the sale. . . . Whether it was wise to make hundreds of thousands or even millions of people of the U. S. felons in the eyes of the law is a matter addressed not to this court but to Congress. . . . The wisdom of the law is one thing, the constitutionality is another...
...hours later, a full hour after the Tiger had found oblivion in total stupor. Death came. Correspondents quarreled and kept on quarreling over whether Mme. Jacquemaire and Sister Theoneste were present at the end. They were not present when Clemenceau of France lost consciousness...
Students in the Harvard Engineering School are not to be allowed to apply for the first two units of the House Plan. Whether, in time, this group will be included, or whether separate quarters will be provided for it is still in doubt. But before the problem of the disposal of these some 200 students is finally solved, it is necessary to note both the lack of fairness and the lack of wisdom in separating the Engineering School from the remainder of the College...
...furnishing of the new Houses fortunately is to be regulated on the sane principle of allowing the occupants to decide whether or not they wish to use the furniture provided for them. At present, the University not only gives the beds, desks, and other essentials, but also insists that these fixtures remain in the rooms. The result of this is that every one has adequate living equipment, but if a man's personal tastes should differ from those of the College, he is needlessly compelled to keep those pieces provided with the suite...