Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When the President had finished, he said he would answer no questions about Formosa: reporters would have to get the answers from the Secretary of State. This hot potato Dean Acheson caught with obvious distaste, although it was he who had first put it in the fire. It was Acheson who persuaded Harry Truman to overrule the Joint Chiefs of Staff on their decision to send military advisers to Formosa (TIME...
...Congress old Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tried loyally to answer a five-hour Republican barrage, but in doing it, he was forced to double back on his own statement of seven days before that it would be "wise" to defend Formosa. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry, the party's on-tap isolationist spokesman, said that Britain's recognition of Red Peking afforded "even more compelling reasons for cutting this [ECA] spending to support British socialism...
...Truman Administration was still not sure whether Freshman Douglas was to be its foremost prophet or its subtlest enemy. He had fought for most of its program with a scholarly mastery of facts and a cool, articulate logic that had hopeful Democrats proclaiming him the Fair Deal's answer to Republican Robert Taft. But he had fought Fair Deal waste and extravagance as hard as any Republican...
...them signed a testimonial expressing their faith in the 41-year-old doctor who had ended the life and suffering of a dying woman by giving her intravenous injections of air (TIME, Jan. 9). But his longtime friend, Attorney General William Phinney, saw Sander as a killer who must answer for his deed before...
When a call came to Pastor Alexander, it was usually a mighty clear one and it got a clear answer. A few years ago, he decided to provide a new church for his flock; soon he was making plans for a $2,000,000 church and recreation center on a 40-acre plot on the outskirts of town. Another time he was called by Hollywood to act in the movies at $1,000 a week. He turned it down...