Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White House Dreadnoughts. The Naval experts' reply to the Maverick attacks on the battleship as a weapon is simply that they are not true. Day after Mr. Maverick dropped his bomb, a retort was fired by Franklin Roosevelt, a lover, like his top admirals, of big ships. He told a press conference that he had been studying Naval reports, secret and otherwise since 1913, and that, if he had concluded therefrom that battleships were obsolete, he would not have recommended building new ones. When torpedo boats were invented and again with the development of undersea and aerial weapons...
...Chief of Naval Operations William Leahy two weeks before, that planes could conceivably destroy a battleship. But he insisted that this outcome of an air v. sea battle was by no means a foregone conclusion. The Navy's air chief quoted the British Imperial Defense Committee's retort to the theory that battleships are outmoded-if the theory proves well founded, a government that builds no battleships will save money; if ill founded, the government will lose an empire. Meanwhile, other Navy and War Department officials pointed out that the only warship ever sunk by planes...
...same level as before Only last month President Benjamin Franklin Fairless of U. S. Steel wrote the Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief that "it is clear that prices cannot be reduced without corresponding reduction in costs, of which wages are the most important part." This produced the following retort from President Roosevelt: "The only way to get volume is to produce goods for a price the public will pay. . . . But that does not mean that such price reductions can come out of wages. Industrialists kill the goose which lays the golden egg when they keep prices...
...Chamberlain, in opening the parley, "would be happy to see Ireland reunited, but only with the consent of Ulster and only as the result of a direct agreement between the two governments now existing in Ireland.'' "Thirty-two counties* or nothing," was de Valera's firm retort. But there was a diplomatic gleam in his eye as he added that unity of Ireland is "the essential foundation for the establishment of real understanding and friendship between the two peoples of Britain and Eire." He proposed an all-Ireland parliament, full representation therein for Ulster, and guarantees protecting...
...paper without the Guild, but that even though he escapes the Guild's full demands, the possible financial loss is terrific. Last week many Guild members thought they had so clipped the Eagle's wings it would soon be in receivership. Mr. Goodfellow's retort: "If there was the remotest possibility, do you think I would spend $30,000 in severance...