Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosevelt. Still no one had the final answer to Term III from the only man who knows the answer. But it was still on the cards that Mr. Roosevelt would be nominated at Chicago in July, unless he specifically and unequivocally declined. Many Washingtonians thought the matter settled: Brain-Trusters pondered only the problem of succession. Again the name of tough-minded Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas was mentioned for the Vice-Presidency on a Roosevelt ticket. Justice Douglas, still the strategic chief of the "Killer" group of the Janizariat, is not so delectable to Mr. Roosevelt...
...Nashua, N. H., a milkman making his early morning round passed a cemetery, heard a voice cry from an open grave, "What time is it?" The milkman did not stay to answer. Returning with a police escort, he discovered a drunk, nightfloundered in the grave...
...Navy, $3,400,000,000 on its Army. Why, then rose the cry of fear and anger last week was the U. S. not armed? Ofcourse the money has been well spent, said Commander in Chief Roosevelt, instantly on the defensive. A further answer: by no means all the money was spent for rearmament. Huge are the "housekeeping" (maintenance) expenses for even a skeletal Army, a growing Navy...
...letter will command the respect of every undergraduate, if only for the deep feeling that is clearly to be seen in it. These man have read the petition recently circulated at Harvard, voicing "determination never, under any circumstances, to follow in the footsteps of the students of 1917." In answer they have passionately affirmed something few would deny--that they, those students of 1917, acted bravely in defense of high ideals. The students who have signed the petition are no less to be respected for their sincerity and depth of conviction...
...that Rochester would make a fine mountain resort if Ickes will build a mountain. Mayor Hercules wrote President Roosevelt, asking a PWA grant to rebuild Rochester's abandoned depot. Last week he nursed a skinned elbow from reaching deep into his mailbox each morning for Roosevelt's answer. "So far I've found nothing in the box but a new bird's nest," said Tripp. "I say . . . it's an honor to be ignored by the President...