Word: answered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early in the trial for contempt, rushed at John Schomaker like a cocky mahout. Pretending to read from a transcript of Schomaker's testimony in a 1939 court hearing, he asked the witness: "Do you remember being asked 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Answer...
...editors replied "To each and all of Mr. Hoover's questions we would of course answer 'no' . . ." The difficulty was, they said, that FBI information was often irresponsibly used by congressional committees. This, they added meekly, was "through no fault of Mr. Hoover's or of his Bureau's, so far as we know...
...official U.S. answer to the question, as expressed by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson in the name of President Truman, was a flat no. But by last week it was plain that a more accurate and honest answer would have been: "No-for the time being." Western military leaders and planners are agreed that some sort of army for the new West German Republic is essential and inevitable. In the face of an East German, Red-armed puppet state, a Western Germany capable of defending itself is necessary to the successful defense of all Western Europe. This view has been...
...legs," Betty Grable confided in Hollywood as her studio mailed to a fan the 1,500,000th copy of the famous Grable-in-a-bathing-suit photo. "People all want to know how I manage to keep them the way they are. I don't have a good answer ... I am just in luck that I happen to stem from the proper genealogical tree. I owe it all to Grannie...
...used Sidewalks of New York as a campaign song?") Grudgingly, Kyser agreed to try some tougher ones. "It was a mistake," he recalls. "We had the dullest show in the world. The minute you have anything harder than a subject, predicate and question mark, they can't answer them...