Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more appropriate question," replied Dulles, "is do we want to tell the Communists what we have in mind for Egypt. The answer to that...
Toward the end of President Eisenhower's first new-term press conference last week, a TIME correspondent asked him to name three or four major goals of his second Administration. Ike's answer was worth the attention of the U.S.'s bruised friends, allies and enemies alike...
Marion Bayard Folsom, 63, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was brought from his post as Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1955 to succeed retiring Oveta Gulp Hobby. He set to work with less fanfare, more success, preaching a doctrine that is the Eisenhower answer to the Fair Deal: the G.O.P. is not opposed to spending money for worthwhile welfare projects. Though softspoken and retiring, Folsom, when treasurer of Eastman Kodak and chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, learned to be suave enough to counter pressure groups, courageous enough to fight against more con servative colleagues for programs...
...tainted, 1,400,000 member Teamsters. Two weeks ago, when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations began a study of labor racketeering, it called in Teamster officers to testify on their use of union funds. The union brass, charging the subcommittee with a lack of jurisdiction, flatly refused to answer questions about their stewardship-e.g.: Had they used union funds to pay Dave Beck's personal bills? -and some of them took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment. Adding to Subcommittee Chairman John L. McClellan's ire, and to the growing concern of many members of the A.F.L...
Resounding No. The answer was a resounding no. By a vote of 331 to 210 the Assembly gave its approval "in principle" to French participation in the Common Market. The 121-vote margin was far handsomer than Mollet had hoped for, and he had achieved it without accepting any troublesome reservations, or having to pose a vote of confidence. But Mollet's victory did not mean that France is irrevocably committed to join the Common Market. Remembering the European Defense Community, which the French Assembly also approved "in principle" only to reject when it came up for final ratification...