Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Franklin Roosevelt felt that he could hot answer Wendell Willkie except with quotations from newspapers, indirect allusions and indirect defenses, he could restate the philosophy of his administration: 1) about the extension of Federal power (that prompted Republican charges of eventual dictatorship); 2) about spending (that prompted Wendell Willkie's charge of eventual bankruptcy). Dedicating his three schools (a high school and two grade schools near Hyde Park), he reaffirmed the meaning of education in a democracy: "In these schools of ours . . . the children of today and of future generations will be taught, without censorship or restriction, the facts...
...political magic was still at work-adroit and fluent as ever, he somehow managed to make Federal spending merely a matter of building schools, and to link free education with his administration in untroubled defiance of the shades of Noah Webster and Horace Mann. This was as effective an answer as he had yet made to Wendell Willkie's charge that a continuation of New Deal policies meant a new economic system in the U. S. -but it was an answer, and it was effective...
...answer might have been found in an editorial in the Scripps-Howard El Paso Herald-Post, which had said accusingly: "John Garner has not been aiding in the struggle to make the nation secure-the nation which in the last 40 years has honored him with high position and paid him and his wife-secretary $500,000 for their services. . . . He has sulked among his goats. It is not of record, however, that John Garner has refused the $2,500 in salary to which he is entitled, but has not earned. For 40 years the taxpayers have trained John Garner...
With 20 days in which to answer it, President Hal Collins swung into action last week, put lawyers to work drafting a reply, proposed to take a "trainload" of cured Crazy customers to Washington to back his claim. Said he: "We'd just as soon comply with some of the commission's demands, but those that would put us out of business we're going to answer...
...freedom in any public institution. From Manhattan the spotlight turned to Cambridge. Would the Corporation disallow the Russell appointment on the grounds of his immoral beliefs, no flimsier excuse than that used to prevent Browder from speaking? Or, if not that, would Dorgan and the Massachusetts courts prevail? The answer came only with Lord Russell's arrival yesterday. Harvard stands justified again in the eyes of her peers and her children...