Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should President Carlos Prío Socarrás have to borrow $100 million in the U.S. when there was plenty of money in Cuba? It was a question his enemies were bound to ask as soon as they heard about his proposed First Boston Corp. 3⅞% loan for public works (TIME...
Announced Acheson: "I want to open the press conference this morning by replying to a question from . . . Mr. Lincoln White. After our last conference, Mr. White asked me whether certain answers [I gave] were inspired by the advice of [the Duchess in Alice in Wonderland], who said...
Last week, Secretary Acheson mended his diplomatic manners. Said he: "Mr. White's question was whether ... I was following [the Duchess'] admonition, and whether I intend to continue to follow it in the future. The implication was that he hoped to God that was not the case. I have advised him that any similarity between my answers to any living person, and Mr. Lewis Carroll's advice, was purely coincidental and highly regrettable...
...Cardinals had fallen to 14, and all the Roman Catholic world momentarily expected Pope Julius III to call a consistory to replenish the College. When the cardinals and papal courtiers had decided that the time was at hand, a messenger was sent to ask His Holiness the customary question: "Beatissime pater, eras erit consistorium?" (Most blessed father, will there be a consistory tomorrow?) But the Pope, who had built his summer villa in the cool valley that is still called "the vineyard of Pope Julius," answered: "Cras erit vinea" (Tomorrow it will _be the vineyard). Pope Julius stayed...
...Radio & Television Directors' Guild rather than sign an anti-Communist affidavit. And Counterattack reeled off a list of Communist-front organizations which he had supported. Said Sweets, in a typical party-liner's defense: "It is not loyalty to the U.S. that is really in question. It is, rather, loyalty to reaction-loyalty, I am convinced in my case, to the ideas of the National Association of Manufacturers. For the record - I am not loyal to many of their ideas. And I never will be." The council of Sweets's union, the Radio & Television Directors' Guild...