Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campand a secretary who looked like a tar-brushed Groucho Marx, the Sultan held a press conference. Overwhelmingly discreet, his reply to almost every question-including inquiries as to why he had stopped playing tennis and what he thought of U. S. women-was "I can't answer that...
Franklin Roosevelt's reaction to this onslaught was to pass out to the press, without comment, a memorandum from Directors Morgan and Lilienthal which had been in his hands since Jan. 18. Having been prepared before the chairman's charges were made, it did not answer them. But in it the majority directors accused the minority chairman of obstructive tactics in failing to abide by majority decisions, charged that Chairman Morgan had collaborated with private utilitymen to hamper the Board's program, implied that the sensible conclusion would be for Minority Member Morgan to resign...
...When a young Swiss neurologist from the University of Berne tried to trick him into making mistakes, he growled: "I answer no doubters. Bother the asses...
...answer to the implication that we may be conspiring to elect some friends, it may be said that the committee is supporting no one for office...
...answer your opponent, question his motives." Such is the axiom which the Crimson has adopted in its attack on the Committee for Electoral Reform entitled "Pals at the Polls...