Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Wendell Willkie went forth as an evangelist. For weeks he had smoldered in Rushville, Ind., reading reports that his campaign had stalled. The only answer he got to his daily denunciation of Franklin Roosevelt was an aloof and lofty silence. Mr. Willkie wanted to fight; Mr. Roosevelt made it plain that he was too busy to campaign. Angry, steam up, Mr. Willkie finally climbed aboard his campaign train...
...could an invasion surprise Britain under these circumstances? It became the job of many enemy agencies to answer and confuse that question. One was the ally, Italy. Into Egypt from Libya drove the spearhead of what seemed to be a major Italian attack. Another was the fifth column, which was at work even in London. Across the city like a flame licked the rumor that the Germans had made a landing in Eire. The German radio helped, warning of an invasion on Sept. 16 which failed to materialize. Signor Mussolini's penpushers did their bit: onetime Fascist Party General...
...Literary Digest mailed a questionnaire to find out whether U. S. citizens preferred Roosevelt or Landon. The answer was Landon, who carried Maine & Vermont. Prominent among those grilled: telephone subscribers. Nobody knows whether telephone subscribers are similarly at odds with the rest of the people in their preferences for radio shows. The radio industry thinks not. It depends for estimates of the popularity of its programs largely upon the Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting, which gathers material for its statistical studies solely by telephone queries. Last week radio bigwigs pored over a C. A. B. semi-annual report which offered...
...what could Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr have to do with oil? In "Boom Town" the answer is, not much. Tracy loves Colbert, who loves Gable, who trifles with Lamarr. In the end Gable sticks with Colbert, Tracy strings along in his usual friendly manner, and Lamarr drops quietly out of the picture, which is a damn shame...
...Louis Star-Times, ardently for Roosevelt and all his works, looked on with increasing wrath. When To the Brink appeared, the Star-Times lashed out with a caustic editorial of its own on page 1. Missouri's New Deal Representative Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. read the Star-Times answer into the Congressional Record, and the Post-Dispatch crusade exploded into a full-fledged editorial...