Answer to Times' Monthly Questions on Current Events Includes Identifications as Well as Topics on U. S. Politics

ANSWERS

I

1. Elected to Senate from Arkansas; first woman to be so elected.

2. British submarine lost with crew.

3. Resigns as Ambassador to England, denies presidential ambitions, appointed head of reconstruction Finance Corporation.

4. Resigns presidency of Amherst to accept professorship at Harvard.

5. Veteran aviator killed when plane crashes at Chicago.

6. Resigns as Associate Justice of United States Supreme Court after twenty nine years of service.

7. Appointed Governor General of Hawaii.

8. Congressman from Texas seeking the impeachment of Secretary Mellon.

9. Jailed for renewed resistance to British authority.

10. United States Senator from Louisiana; defers assuming seat until successor as Governor of Louisiana has been installed.

II

1. John H. Latane of Johns Hopkins.

2. Finland.

3. George H. Moses.

4. Norris "lame duck" amendment, changing sessions of Congress.

5. Won by Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson.

6. Lake Placid.

7. Lytton Strachey.

8. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

9. Postponement until after of international conferences had been held.

10. Appointment of international commission to investigate and report.

III

1. Abolition of President's power to change rates under "flexible" provisions; creation of office of counsel to represent consumers before Tariff Commission; request for calling of international tariff conference.

2. Whether the redistricting measure must be a regular statute in the enactment of which the state governor exercises his normal power of approval or veto.

3. President Hoover, Governor Ritchie of Maryland, Governor Roosevelt of New York.

4. Defeated the Bingham proposal to request the states to hold referendum elections upon the Eighteenth Amendment.

5. The creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.