Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Washington, New Dealers called the acceptance speech the greatest political failure in history, announced that Harold Ickes would answer, began talking up Ambassador Bullitt's Philadelphia address before Wendell Willkie had finished his talk. Elsewhere the speech was deemed moderately good: to the Louisville Courier-Journal, too general; to Herbert Hoover, a strong speech for a strong people; to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, fine; to the Baltimore Sun, thoughtful; the Chicago Daily News (which last week dropped the name of its owner, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox from its masthead called it a courageous speech and came...
...Democratic candidate for President last week disdained to answer the challenge in Wendell Willkie's G. O. P acceptance speech. President Roosevelt instead chose waspish Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to sting back Mr. Willkie. Some Ickes stingers...
...test was to be conducted by the Garand's sponsors, the new Winchester had an advance testimonial from the boss of the Marines. Said General Holcomb last month: "We have seen a demonstration of one of these rifles and it appeared to us to be a complete answer to what we need. It will cost about half the cost of the Garand rifle...
Some real jostling took place in the House of Commons at the foot of Big Ben's tower-the bitterest name-calling, insult-shouting, fist-shaking free-for-all that has taken place since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. The row started when the Prime Minister declined to answer questions on a secret fifth-column investigating committee headed by onetime Air Secretary Viscount Swinton, political godchild of Stanley Baldwin, who had been denounced by Laborites as a consistent Tory bungler. Doubting Viscount Swinton's competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain...
...days later the Russians went back, had the Legation gate slammed in their faces. All day they tried to get the Legation to surrender by telephone, but the telephone did not answer. Berliners thought all this was highly amusing...