Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week began, the Senate settled down to voting on amendments to the Administration's Thomas bill, a slightly thickened second serving of the old Wagner Act. The key question was how to handle strikes which jeopardized the national welfare...
...Jackson could hardly contain himself in his dissent from Justice Frank Murphy's majority opinion. The court was trying to change Congress' own rules, he said. For more than 150 years it has been standard congressional practice to presume a quorum until someone specifically raised the question and proved otherwise (as no one did in the Christoffel case). Murphy's decision, said Jackson, challenged the validity of thousands of congressional bills which have been passed without a record vote-hence without actual proof that a quorum was on hand...
...Christian Socialists, who had fallen just short of an absolute majority (TIME, July 4), last week sought to form a coalition cabinet. Premier-designate Paul van Zeeland pledged an "unflinching" fight for return of exiled King Leopold III. The Liberal Party shunned "rash decisions" on the royal question; they wanted tax cuts first. The Socialists growled ominously: if Leopold came back, they would call a general strike. As the tense maneuvering between the parties continued, it seemed that Belgium's royal question would have no easy answer...
...really can't concern ourselves with the use to which you propose to put it . . . You want a cathedral? Right! The architectural department will tell you how to build it. But whether you should worship in it or keep pigs in it is a question which falls outside our province...
...Seattle, an insurance salesman refurbished an old trick to sign up the uninsured. He got pictures of unsuspecting prospects, had an artist brush in the lines, sags and bags they might have at 65, and confronted the subjects with the question : "What are you doing to take care of this fellow...