Word: answers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators called John back to grill him last week, he turned up with a lawyer. "The attorney laid a piece of paper before his client. Whenever he was asked an embrrassing question the lawyer tapped the paper and John looked down and read aloud from it: "I refuse to answer that question on advice of counsel, on the ground that my answer might tend to incriminate...
That might be an answer to the Senators, but the House wasn't listening. Since the Senate wouldn't agree to a formal adjournment, the House had another out: it would simply start a series of three-day recesses, which require no Senate approval. For the next four weeks. Speaker Sam Rayburn announced, only a corporal's guard would need to stay in town-someone to act as Speaker, a functionary to parade the mace (which is the symbol of House authority), and someone to move adjournment every day after the journal has been approved...
...Challenge. Hoffman first deftly disposed of some stock British alibis and delusions. For one thing, he said in answer to newsmen's needling questions, the U.S. does not have to sell goods to Britain or to anyone else in Europe to stay prosperous. For another, he admitted that U.S. tariff policies could stand improvement ("too many [Americans] believe that imports harm rather than enrich their country"), but he pointed out that, within existing U.S. tariff barriers, British exporters still had ample opportunities. The trouble was that the British had not tried hard enough to exploit them...
...bride's answer to the traditional Bamangwato tribal welcoming cry was not recorded, but she indicated graciously that any friends of her husband's were of course friends of hers...
...Christianity is indivisible. Christianity is not a shallow materialistic concept masquerading as a .life philosophy, as are Leninism and Marxism; Christianity is a dynamic spiritual force that outlives all politics. Christianity is the answer to all ideologies. The only possible hope for peace and order in Europe lies in a federated Europe based on Christian ideals...