Word: answers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could Formosa be held? The answer seemed to be that it could, and with a relatively small force. Ninety miles of water lie between Formosa and the mainland. Mao Tse-tung has no navy, no air power, no amphibious forces. Its occupation would demonstrate to all of Asia the determination of the U.S. to stand fast. So ran the argument...
Dean Acheson tried to give an answer of sorts at his weekly press conference. The U.S. did not recognize the Nationalist blockade, he said, because the Nationalists could not make it effective. But the State Department wished fervently that U.S. ships would quit trying to run the blockade. Acheson added that there was a difference between having a legal right and going to all possible lengths to enforce legal rights...
...difficulty was not all of his own making: the industry was sick; it could no longer sustain all its mines working full-time all year. The question was whether John L. had found the right answer: in effect a three-day week only divvied up the distress...
...tough: "Why do you vote so often with the Democrats and why don't you run on the Democratic ticket?" Glib Wayne Morse, a maverick on the Republican range who voted with the Democrats three times out of four in the 81st Congress, took nine minutes to answer it. Look up the Republican platform, he said, and you will find that the Morse record closely followed it. Other questioners wanted to know about the Columbia Valley Administration and the Administration's health insurance bill. He opposed CVA, he explained, because it would take control of the Northwest from...
...trouble both before and after the war. But before the war the vocal public reaction was, "Those Harvard boys are at it again." Today the vocal reaction is, "Those Harvard Reds." The Dean's Office doesn't like the sound of the latter. The limitations on rallies are its answer...