Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troubles of U.S. democracy, Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse had long since decided, is that U.S. citizens are sometimes a little lazy when it comes to working at it-especially if the work involves going to a political meeting and asking a challenging candidate a few sharp questions. Last week Morse set out to make the process really easy. Seated in a little studio in station KERG in Eugene, he invited listening farmers and townspeople to pick up the phone and ask him a question. The questions came with a rush; it kept three people busy just taking...
...first question was tough: "Why do you vote so often with the Democrats and why don't you run on the Democratic ticket?" Glib Wayne Morse, a maverick on the Republican range who voted with the Democrats three times out of four in the 81st Congress, took nine minutes to answer it. Look up the Republican platform, he said, and you will find that the Morse record closely followed it. Other questioners wanted to know about the Columbia Valley Administration and the Administration's health insurance bill. He opposed CVA, he explained, because it would take control...
...morning in October 1933, Schomaker, Bridges and a Communist named Bruce B. Jones sat in a restaurant sipping coffee (paid for by Bridges) and talking. "In the course of the conversation," said the witness, "Jones put the $64 question to Bridges. The question was: 'When are you going to join the party, Harry?' Bridges already had the application." Bridges acted "kind of coy" for a few minutes, Schomaker went on, but finally he signed up under the name of Harry Dorgan, using his mother's maiden name...
...official U.S. answer to the question, as expressed by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson in the name of President Truman, was a flat no. But by last week it was plain that a more accurate and honest answer would have been: "No-for the time being." Western military leaders and planners are agreed that some sort of army for the new West German Republic is essential and inevitable. In the face of an East German, Red-armed puppet state, a Western Germany capable of defending itself is necessary to the successful defense of all Western Europe. This view has been...
...success: he has sold out three one-man shows in six years and won a reputation as the foremost young "romantic" painter in the U.S. Stuempfig's latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, did nothing to diminish that reputation, but it did raise a question : How romantic...