Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Ritz-Carlton this week. Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy talked to Louis M. Lyons of the Boston Globe, two other newsmen, was mightily wroth when he saw Reporter Lyons' bylined story of the interview. Excerpt: "Democracy [said Kennedy] is finished in England. . . . It's all an economic question. I told the President in the White House last Sunday, 'Don't send me 50 admirals and generals, send me a dozen real economists.' . . . It's all a question of what we do with the next six months. The whole reason for aiding England is to give...
...lettering. At 9:50 a.m. John Lewis arrived, bull shoulders hunched, and clumped inside. There he fixed waiting newsmen with his scowl. Would Mr. Lewis discuss his promise to resign as C. I. 0. head if Roosevelt were reelected? Labor's most enigmatic leader good-naturedly brushed the question aside...
Other C. I. O. left-wing unions loudly reaffirmed their loyalty to their "great leader." A great leader or a repudiated man, Lewis had become the biggest issue in Labor. This week, with its annual convention just ahead, a jittery C. I. 0. faced a showdown. There was little question about John Lewis keeping his promise to resign. The question was what would happen...
...There can be no question of handing over these ports. . . . Any attempt to bring pressure on us by any of the belligerents-by Britain-would only lead to bloodshed...
...Roper, with a small staff of interviewers (81, compared to Gallup's 1,100 and Wall's 4,000), seldom samples the opinions of more than 5,000 citizens, chosen according to age, occupation, sex, economic condition, geographical distribution. (Gallup, in his State-by-State polls, may question as many as 60,000 people.) Roper's interviewers are carefully trained, rigidly supervised to prevent personal opinions from affecting their work. Always he checks back, querying interviewees by post card, to make sure that his interviewers have been accurate...