Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...candidate, he hinted in a shout, must be Mr. Roosevelt. "He is our Lincoln," cried Young Hickory. To grumblers who beef because the President will not declare himself on the third term he had an answer, presumably straight from headquarters: "Why should Franklin Roosevelt be the one man in all public life now committed to accept or not accept a nomination? . . . We do not want to put the greatest asset of the Democratic party in hock...
Mystery. How did it happen that the belligerent Dies Committee that ranted, raved, hurled such wild charges, spread so much alarm, could produce such a measured document? New Dealers last week had a ready answer: It was because the New Dealers on the Dies Committee
Mystery. How did it happen that the belligerent Dies Committee that ranted, raved, hurled such wild charges, spread so much alarm, could produce such a measured document? New Dealers last week had a ready answer: It was because the New Dealers on the Dies Committee took the report away from die-hard Martin Dies...
...London blackout. "I may be back!" he told a War Office messenger, and to reporters who rushed to his small suburban estate at Wimbledon Common he mysteriously confided, "This is very big, much bigger than you imagine-it had to come." Over the weekend Bachelor Hore-Belisha refused to answer his ceaselessly jangling phone, slit open with satisfaction scores of telegrams and cables of sympathy and indignation, many from U. S. citizens. Good or bad, the reasons for the dramatic ouster of War Secretary Hore-Belisha, which caught the British public wholly unprepared and raised a world furor, were easily...
...loved as a man. Germans call him "gentlest of all the Nazis," and consider him eminently tolerant, fairminded, honest. Short, fat as Santa Claus, just turning 50, he is the funniest after-dinner speaker in Berlin, and about the only Nazi bigwig who will give foreign newspapermen a straight answer...