Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only newsy answer that he gave to any question served to bring the subject back to the pressing but rather more comfortable topic of foreign relations. Asked in cleverly-framed words whether he considered that holding a national referendum on declaring war would be consistent with representative government, he answered, flatly...
Judge Cosgrave presently ruled upon the whole question of the suit: Had Herbert Fleishhacker damaged certain Lazard Freres heirs by selling certain oil lands belonging to them in Kern County, Calif, in 1915-17 for too cheap a price? Deciding that the answer was Yes, Judge Cosgrave ordered Herbert Fleishhacker to pay damages of $300,000. He then sent compliments to Lawyer Neylan for his handling of the case. Comparing himself to Emile Zola defending Dreyfus, Lawyer Neylan stormed back: "I am serving notice now on all those behind the present litigation against Mr. Fleishhacker that I am going...
...Equality, Ill., when Robert Micas, a deaf-mute door-to-door magazine salesman, knocked at the home of Mrs. Lucille Shaghuey, she picked up a shotgun, asked through the closed door what he wanted. "If you don't answer," she cried, "I'll shoot." Receiving no reply, she shot Deaf-Mute Micas dead...
...growl was the only answer...
...sensational entertainment provided for them by films, newspaper strips and particularly the radio. Said brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Dorothy L. McFadden, mother of James & Jean and wife of James L. McFadden, export consultant and amateur sketcher: ''Why can't we produce decent entertainment ourselves?" The answer was a series of children's programs (music, marionets, etc.) given by Manhattan professionals. Admission: 10?. So enthusiastic was the reception that the next year Junior Programs, with Mrs. McFadden as executive director, began to send professional troupes to entertain the children of other towns. By last week Junior...