Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What Secretary Woodring's answer contained, only the Secretary and the President knew: it was too "personal" to be released. Next day the Senate clerk read out the names of President Roosevelt's two nominations for his Cabinet-for Secretary of the Navy: William Franklin Knox of Chicago. Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 1936, supporter of the President's foreign policy; for Secretary of War: Henry Lewis Stimson...
Coming on the heels of a Trojan-horse scare which swept over South America, the Quincy was hailed, a little extravagantly, as Washington's answer to the discovery of a Nazi plan for military occupation of Uruguay (TIME, June 24). That plan, a Uruguayan Congressional investigating committee asserted, had been calculated to convert "our nation into a country of peasants...
...Bolivian Ministry of Interior reasserted the freedom of the press in answer to Nazi demands for muzzling the anti-Fascist La Razon. "We will not tolerate the inexplicable Nazi attitude," La Razon shouted defiantly...
Stuart's raids around the Union Army, for example, were very effective; and the ability of those splendid horsemen to serve as the eyes of their Chief and to blind the enemy counted perhaps still more. The answer to Stuart's cavalry was simply still better cavalry and more of it. And so in the end, the Confederate horsemen were worn out or ridden down, and the scales were reversed. One can see no other answer to the offensive power of aviation and mechanized forces-almost ruinously expensive as that answer may be-than in having still more...
...assembled matrons. Ten minutes later, after the girls are all in spasms at Tommie, who thinks nothing of rolling on the floor to get them giggling, WBBM technicians begin to record Meet the Missus. Twittering like sparrows, yanking nervously at their girdles, some of Tommie 's girls answer questions about their clothes, husbands, honeymoons, aspirations, frustrations, children, while the rest of them hoot and howl. Perennial query in the Bartlett questionnaire: "If you were to become a motion-picture actress, what actor would you like as your leading man?" Stock answer: Clark Gable...