Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan, once more asked Chairman Morgan to substantiate the sensational charges upon which he was demanding a Congressional investigation of his colleagues (TIME, March 21). When Chairman Morgan, apparently counting on the fact that a Congressional investigation of TVA is now certain, once more refused to answer Presidential questions, Franklin Roosevelt with a great show of forbearance extended the hearing another three days. When three days later Mr. Morgan reaffirmed his determination not to let the President rush in where Congress was anxious to tread, Franklin Roosevelt, who can be as bull-headed as anyone else, laid...
Last week, at the invitation of British Broadcasting Corp., Mr. Lewis disburdened himself to interested Britons in the fourth of the "America Speaks" series inaugurated last month by Secretary Ickes. Much more interested than Britons, however, were Americans who listened carefully for an answer to the question, "Whither Lewis...
...Roosevelt has won a few pawns but his king is in check. The very act of removing Arthur Morgan made a Congressional investigation inevitable, and the President could only answer that he had always wanted one anyway. By his maneuvering, he now stands to lose an important legal decision, he has aroused public opinion, and the fact of the T.V.A. and other similar organization may be seriously imperilled by the court decision and the investigation of Congress...
...does Spring affect your attitude toward Harvard?" was the next question. "Nothing could," stated the cross-section icily. "Do you gambol on the green?" the girls were asked. "No, we always bet on the red," was the ready answer. Most of the cross-section scurried away to labs, leaving but one chubby lass, a large pair of horn-rimmed spectacles, and a pair of flat feet...
Like all other Law Students, Stone who has a wife and little girl does not see how he can possibly answer the questions on the final examinations. He finds himself at a disadvantage "returning to the grind after being away from it for such a long time and getting into sloppy habits of thinking...