Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automakers were unanimous in their answer. "Another publicity maneuver," shot back General Motors Corp. President Harlow H. Curtice. Retorted Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum Colbert: "You are proposing that management abdicate its responsibilities-and that months after sustaining a drastically reduced income, a company would go before the U.A.W. or before a three-man panel to attempt to justify its need for partial relief." Henry Ford II: "The rapid increases in wages of automobile workers over the past ten years, which were negotiated under the duress of your demands, have unquestionably contributed to inflation. Thus, having poured gasoline...
...Bricker Amendment followers. Also voted: $33,236 for Gypsy Markoff, injured in the same crash. ¶ Cited, in the House, three Un-American Activities Committee witnesses for contempt of Congress. The three-a radio broadcaster, a radio operator and a Western Union service writer-had refused to answer questions about Communism. Their grounds: the U.S. Supreme Court's Watkins case decision, which held that a witness must have a clear legislative reason for the congressional investigation and that all questions must be pertinent to that legislative reason...
...East, every action compels counteraction, and the Syrian coup involves dangers as well as advantages for Russia. The faint-seeming response so far by the other Arab states and by the West is to the Syrian coup a recognition that a counter-show of force is not the best answer. Instead the need was to rally together all the discordant and touchy elements in the Middle East that can be united on the simple proposition of keeping any "imperialism." including Communism, out of their territory...
...Among them: the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech, the Baltimore Sun's Phil Potter, the New York Times's Tillman Durdin, TIME-LIFE'S James Burke (who was a TIME-LIFE correspondent in Peking from 1947 io 1949). This week Radio Peking gave an answer that started some of them unpacking again. The Dulles decision to let U.S. newsmen into China, said the broadcast, is "completely unacceptable to the Chinese people"-unless. The unless: U.S. agreement to invite Chinese Communist correspondents on a reciprocal basis...
...semihappy ending is an altogether sappy ending. The book made it plain that there was no hope for Jake and Brett ever to alter or escape their anguished, futile bondage. Yet the movie has them finally agreeing to the silver-lined proposition that "there must be some answer for us -somewhere...