Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's Democrat James Oliver Eastland. and the House Judiciary Committee, starring Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis E. ("Tad") Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. handed the President and the U.S. their answer. Its net: the U.S.'s prestige and the U.S.'s good faith could go hang...
...that he is president of the council or that he is acquainted with other Teamster officials. Asked South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt plaintively: "Is there anything you would like to say to help disincriminate yourself? Is the whole story really that bad?" O'Rourke declined to answer, but after the questioning was over, he stepped outside the Senate caucus room, braced himself against a marble pillar and burst into tears...
...Ludwig Erhard's answer to this remarkable proposition has been a resounding no. "Why put a healthy man in the hospital?" demanded one of his subordinates last week. "Why should we, the country that has gone to such pains to make our economy strong, pay the penalty for others who do not produce so efficiently?" Britain and France argue in return that ever since World War II their economies have carried a heavy arms burden, while Germany for years had no army of its own, and now that it has one, has yet to meet its NATO pledges...
...vote for any such new program. But even farmers have come to realize that the present setup cannot last. Wonders an Oregon wheat farmer: "Is the taxpayer going to stand for it? I can't think any program relying on Government help in the long run is an answer. It's phony, phony as hell." A Utah farmer looks at it the same way: "You can't buy a solution to the farm problem by spending more and more money. So why don't they stop trying, before the city people rise up in arms?" Says...
...under all farm commodities-or at least under cotton. A Colorado wheat farmer offers still another plan: "Congress should create huge cooperatives to handle the crops, and only enough should be let out to maintain the market." But farm experts who take a broad view see no simple, straightforward answer. "The farm problem," broods an Illinois farm economist,"is semi-economic, semipolitical, semi-moral and semi-social. It's as changeable as a chameleon and prickly as a porcupine...