Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure the South will not passively submit to a callous scheme to deprive the whites of their civil rights. Massive resistance is the ever-growing answer as evidenced by the Arkansas vote...
...essential issue, said the appellate court's majority opinion, written by Judge Marion C. Matthes, was "whether overt public resistance, including mob protest, constitutes sufficient cause to nullify an order of the federal court." To that question the Circuit Court gave a stern answer: "The time has not yet come in these United States when an order of a federal court must be whittled away, watered down or shamefully withdrawn in the face of violent and unlawful acts of individual citizens...
Dropping the Shoe. But hardware, however sophisticated, is far from Jimmy Thach's major problem. Before he can even begin to answer the challenge of the submarine revolution, he must understand, as has no man before, the mind of the submariners he is trying to kill-and the mystery of the sea itself...
...Jimmy Thach's experience and versatility were turned to the deepening and long-neglected problem of antisubmarine warfare. He became one of four ASW carrier division Atlantic commanders in the Navy's Hunter-Killer Force (HUKFOR). With the three others, he was called before Arleigh Burke to answer the question: What could the Navy do to improve its submarine defenses? Hardly hesitating, Thach outlined a plan for a semipermanent task force, chartered to experiment with and develop new antisubmarine defense systems. When Thach finished talking, Arleigh Burke grinned. "Jimmy Thach," he said, "has just made an unfortunate speech...
...Directed Carpenters Union President Maurice Hutcheson, who inherited the 800,000-member union from his late father, "Big Bill," as a sort of family property, to explain by next November why he refused to answer McClellan Committee questions. Under indictment in Indiana for conspiracy to bribe a state highway official, Hutcheson and other Carpenter officials turned a fast 200% profit by buying right-of-way land for $40,000, selling it to the state a few weeks later for $120,000. Also, in memory of his father, Hutcheson paid a hack writer $310,000 from union funds to write...