Word: answering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requires mulling over and assimilating beforehand. The man who has spent a few nightmare hours cramming at Parker-Cramer's knows most of the essential facts. He has even had a stock interpretation of the facts handed down to him. But he cannot twist this interpretation around to answer questions shot from unexpected angles. So he resorts to building a weak bridge from the question to his stock answer, and then proceeds to pour out what he has memorized. In effect he evades the question...
...have been screaming for relief from taxes, to the Republican Party-which has been crying for reduction in Federal spending, to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce which wants to repeal the Wage-Hour Law-to all these and sundry other critics Franklin Roosevelt this week boomed his answer. In his best oratorical form, before the friendly American Retail Federation, he virtually defied all critics, announced that the New Deal would not give them an inch...
Treasurer Anderson announced that he could not be responsible for B.R.T.'s funds unless he was allowed to watchdog. To this part of disgruntled Mr. Anderson's indictment, B.R.T.'s Whitney had a telling answer: union assets since 1935 have increased from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000, membership by 17,695 to 133,969. Brother Whitney had his delegates oust Brother Anderson, vote to meet hereafter in cities "whose newspapers appreciate our visit sufficiently to deal fairly and respectfully with...
...Foreign Ministers of the Oslo Powers met in an extraordinary conference singularly unlike those usually held twice a year to discuss routine matters. Present were Juho Eljas Erkko of Finland; Richard Sandler of Sweden; Halvdan Koht of Norway and Peter Munch of Denmark. Their agenda: to decide what answer to make to Herr Hitler's offer of non-aggression pacts...
Recently Mayor Lyons proposed to President Conant that the University "contribute" $100,000 a year to the city because of the "services" Cambridge renders. President Conant's answer to this proposal, made public today, parries with beautiful logic and an extremely facile pen Mayor Lyons' request. The answer is, "No." And the President has set forth a justification of Harvard's refusal that is little short of classic. It is perhaps a Harvard Bill of Rights; it takes a firm stand on the question of taxation...