Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this ambitious hope raises the question: does Powers have the political courage--or rather, strength--to stand against the demands of many pressure groups? Last year, Mayor Hynes approved a "white paper" which called for a no-fire, no-hire policy. It has been collecting dust in his desk drawer; due to political pressure, the experiment came to naught...
Besides being contained in DeGuglielmo's petition, the name of the notarizer in question was on the inner envelope opened in the original case last week, a political observer pointed out. Hence, the Election Commission knows the name involved. It claimed Friday it could not legally open even the outer envelopes until election night without a court order...
Asked the same old presidential question after lunch, he grinned engagingly and gave quite a different answer: "I am not a candidate for the presidency, but I appreciate your asking. I get to feel neglected...
...economic and social philosophy is "far closer to 'liberal' Democratic than to traditionally Republican doctrine." Less harsh, yet frankly skeptical, was the judgment of Cook County Republican Chairman Francis X. Connell: "I don't think he's changed anybody's mind on the question of the nominee for President." While he found Governor Rockefeller "completely disarming," said Connell, the organization is behind Nixon...
...wanted the Tibet question debated in the U.N. When it was debated there anyway (at the urging of Ireland and Malaya). Nehru's wire-haired man-about-U.N.. V. K. Krishna Menon, dismissed Red China's aggressiveness as little more than the ebullience of youth, and deplored only China's choice of victims. "We tell them," he said, "that they can kick up their heels, but not against those who have not offended them." To some indignant Indian editorialists this seemed tantamount to inviting Red China to attack Formosa, Hong Kong. Laos or any other...