Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Confusion. If he could answer the people, answer the correspondents, there remained the small but important problem of answering the Democratic National
Delay. If he could answer the people, the press, the Convention, there remained the problem of answering the Democratic Party that was going into a campaign in which it would be unseemly for the President to take an active part. From a dimly lighted, peach-colored telephone booth in the reception room of Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, Senator James Byrnes called the White House, formally informed President Roosevelt that he was the Democratic nominee. All day in Washington the White House remained silent except for a statement that the President would address the Convention after a Vice-Presidential nominee...
...Answer. In a melancholy, persuasive voice that sometimes grew emotional, Franklin Roosevelt told of his reasons for accepting the nomination: "It is with a very full heart that I speak tonight...
...know that our answer, which will come some day, will bring upon the people unending suffering and misery. Of course, not upon Mr. Churchill, for he no doubt will already be in Canada where the money and the children of those principally interested in the war already have been sent. For millions of other persons great suffering will begin...
...Lord Halifax broadcast Britain's answer to the world, his voice was deep, full of religious feeling, hollow and lonely as an empty church. It was not a voice to inspire fury, but it did instill hope, a sense of justice, a calmness of conscience. Said...