Word: answerable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chamber of Commerce refuses to believe there is a critical shortage at all. Senator Knowland thinks that federal aid for school construction will inevitably lead to federal control, but Democratic Representative Augustine Kelley has declared it "urgently needed." How do the 48 states feel about it? For the answer, see TIME's survey of all 48 states in EDUCATION, Federal School Aid-Do the States Want...
...budget? The new penny-pinching Democrats hoped so, because they were delighted to see the Republicans split on the issue of economy. Favorite Democratic cloakroom joke of the week: "If Ike does go on TV to defend his budget, the Republican Party should demand equal time to answer...
...declare school segregation unconstitutional. Assistant Attorney General J. Lee Rankin recalls that the tension in the great marble chamber was "electric." Says Rankin: "Attorney General Brownell had directed me to say that the Government thought it was the duty of the court to find segregation unconstitutional. That was the answer I gave...
...build a machine that would type exactly like the old Woodstock, had typed the sheets of espionage material, and then planted the fake machine where Hiss's own investigators would find it and bring it into court. This argument was effectively demolished by the Government's answer to the new-trial motion, in which U.S. District Attorney Myles Lane described the new Hiss argument as "a combination of a Grimm fairy tale with a bit of a Rube Goldberg twist." But Hiss rests his book, and in effect, his hope for vindication, on this forgery charge...
...answer to Vellucci's questions, Wescott said he had no knowledge of the eviction of 28 families by the University or its recent property acquisitions around Cambridge...