Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thurmond has never campaigned on a "white supremacy" platform. He has consistently urged constitutional government of the U.S., with the 48 components maintaining their sovereign rights. Of course, it makes a more sensational article . . . when you drag in the Negro question-and probably sells more copies in your Northern stronghold where they can continue their criticism of the Southerners for their oppression of the poor blacks...
...right or wrong? The question might soon be settled by history. The military news indicated that he might have been tragically wrong, for reasons which he himself had foreseen eight months ago. In February 1948, Marshall had appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, had there engaged in a blunt exchange with Minnesota's Congressman Walter Judd...
...flick an invisible speck of dust from its owner's black suit, sharply stabbed the air. "We cannot accept . . ." said Vishinsky. It was Russia's 28th veto. Said the U.S.'s Philip Jessup: "In the judgment of the world . . . if the Berlin question is not settled . . . the responsibility of failure will rest squarely and unavoidably on the government of the U.S.S.R...
...special appeal of an activities center is its association with a general, rather than with a departmental interest of the members of the University; and the only question of its suitability as a memorial, apart from its possibly prohibitive cost, is whether its memorial character might wear away as years and generations pass, or be impaired by the obsolescence of the physical structure or, perhaps, by changes in the ways and needs of the student community...
...this is a very real question if due weight is given to the prospects of permanence in a constantly changing world. The history of Harvard buildings throws light on this point. Old Gore Hall that for the better part of a country was the College Library was a memorial of Governor Christopher Gore; yet it had to give place to another memorial--the present Widener Library. Gore's name was transferred to a supposedly permanent Freshman dormitory which later became a part of Winthrop House. McKinlock Hall was a memorial to a Harvard here of the first World War, with...