Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Approved Congressman Martin Dies's stringent procedure against Communists who have refused to answer questions, voted to cite three reticent Reds for contempt of the House...
...Communists and fellow travelers. But only a few resent this. They charge that H.S.U. policy is vicious because it appears to follow the Kremlin, and cite as an example the fact that last year the H.S.U. was asking for collective security, and now is on an isolationist tack. The answer to that is that the H.S.U. has learned well the lesson of the World War; that America has a fatal tendency to jump into Europe when war is raging, and then pull out when peace comes...
...Anti-War Committee blamed the HSU for the failure to arrange an all- University peace demonstration, charging that Gottlieb, HSU president, failed to answer a letter sent to him as early as February 11 proposing a joint rally...
...foray in the field of consumer protection, RCA was mum, said nothing about its own willingness to stake its reputation that television was ready to go. Less than mum were editorial writers who thundered at what seemed to be arbitrary restriction of a new and promising industry. To answer them lean, balding FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly last week took to the air. Gist of his defense: if RCA's transmission methods should be superseded by technological developments (now being tested by Philco, DuMont and other RCA competitors), its sets would be useless, purchasers might have to discard them...
...judgment and mind." Uncle Fred S. Waterman was called "incompetent and unfit." To their mismanagement he charged a ten-year loss of $4,000,000, a $4,112,198 drop in surplus, a $2,001,016 shrinkage of cash and securities. But men in the company, whose answer remained to be filed, found their business, despite losses, in good shape...