Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primary importance. All U. S. citizens agreed that the Defense Commission was primary above all things. And no one denied that the Defense Commission needed, and badly needed, a fast, tough, wise, sharpshooting chairman. In this particular case, the U. S. looked to the President not for an answer, but an appointment...
...people wanted facts-no matter how hard, cold, disillusioning. In every way they knew how, Americans asked last week-How grave the peril? How great the sacrifices? How heavy the burden? How huge the task? Franklin Roosevelt was the man they wanted the answer from...
...strike at the Vultee plant, which for twelve days stopped delivery of badly needed basic trainers to the Army Air Corps. It was plain in the formal, written protest (later swallowed) of President John G. Pew of Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. that his company could not answer charges of unfair labor practice, and at the same time go ahead with a $69,000,000 Navy building program. It was plain in the demand of Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman that Henry Ford settle his differences with labor (before a final decision by the Supreme Court) or go without...
Hospital told some colleagues in Cleveland that Memorial's doctors thought they had the answer. Their weapon, made by California Atom-Smasher Ernest Orlando Lawrence: radioactive phosphorus...
...Conant said there is one question that each and every American must decide before anything constructive in the way of defense can be accomplished, "Is the American people ready to decide that the Axis powers must be defeated," He added, "Unless the American people is ready to answer that question, everything in our defense will remain vague and fuzzy...