Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More Questions? In London, ten-year-old Roy Scott asked his mother: "What's a thunderbolt?", got the answer as one hit the roof with a blinding flash. In Montrose, Colo., lightning knocked down Austin Baca, who arose just before a second bolt knocked him down again...
Pennsylvania's manufacturers, led by Mason Owlett, descended on the governor's office in Harrisburg, singly and in angry droves. To all, Big Jim had the same answer: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." After the tax bills had passed, he remarked to a friend: "Those bastards are so accustomed to getting their own way they make blueprints for their track and start scheduling trains over it right away. When...
Sulks & Snarls. But taken in the round, the record was the full answer to Harry Truman's irresponsible blurt. Congress did not need the replies in kind that some of its members delivered. Majority Leader Charley Halleck said: "There are a lot of people who think Mr. Truman is the poorest President since George Washington." On the floor of the House, Ohio's Cliff Clevenger rapped: "Might well be there will be some Congress-tanned Missouri jackass hide on the Christmas market-come November." The Rev. Peter Marshall, the Senate's chaplain, spoke the final word...
...embassy officials hurriedly explained there would be no, recruiting, at least until the Senate-approved measure becomes law. A young Pole in London had an answer to that. He offered to serve in the "Senate Army," just in case the House of Representatives didn't want...
...first, like many other tenants, Salvatore had tried desperately to save his modest enterprise. He appealed to Mayor William O'Dwyer. The mayor referred him to Commissioner Robert Moses. "I wrote Moses, but no answer," said Salvatore sadly. Now he is resigned, but hopeful. As the spinning steel ball brought down the buildings around him last week, Salvatore said: "We're good, quiet people, all working people. Mostly Italians, but there's a Jewish fella and an Irish fella. We always get along. No fights. Never need the police. So maybe they let us stay...