Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missed the opportunity to mention that there is a question whether Alexander Bell or Elisha Gray was the inventor of the telephone...
...Question. At week's end the President briefed chairmen and ranking members of Senate and House foreign and military affairs committees, got the sternest questioning of the week. Was it not inconsistent, asked Georgia's sharp-tongued Democrat Carl Vinson, to go ahead with planned manpower cuts in the Army and Marine Corps, given Communist strength in East Germany? Answered Ike: No. The U.S. has enough nuclear and conventional arms on hand...
...armed convoy through, the Communists stalled it by blowing up a bridge? Answer: the U.S. would repair the bridge. Asked Fulbright: "What would we do if they used armed force at that point to prevent us from repairing the bridge?" Said the President: "That is the $64,000 question...
...Question put by House Democratic Majority Leader John McCormack to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy before the House Space Committee last week: Is it still U.S. policy not to strike the first blow in war? Said McElroy: "Our policy is that we will not attack first." Democrat McCormack pressed harder: "Isn't this policy a rather untenable one in case of a great emergency?" McElroy acknowledged that to let U.S. enemies strike the first blow in the nuclear missile age would indeed help a potential attacker, then said of U.S. policy: "Whether that will always be true I think could...
...undetected. Duration of such a buildup might be four or five days. And if such a buildup were reported to the U.S., it would, said McElroy, create "exactly the kind of a situation which the President of the U.S. at that time would have a very serious question posed for him . . . That is a description of a situation which would put really a very, very rough problem before the President...