Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the facile cynic that it is the fault of the people themselves is to beg the question...
...Press Laughed. Committee members began to question him. What was the difference, New York's orotund Sol Bloom wanted to know, between the Wallace line and the Communist line on ERP? Replied Henry stiffly: "I am not familiar with the Communist approach. I am not prepared to discuss it. I don't know what the Communist objection is. I don't follow the Communist literature." South Dakota's Karl Mundt asked him if he thought Russia was meddling in European affairs. No one could say for sure, Wallace replied, because it was "impossible...
...Western nations had scores of possible answers to the Czech move. Instead of getting France to join last week in the kind of protest note that helped Hitler to power, France might have been induced to stop stalling on the question of Western German industry. Two U.S. Army divisions to Greece-with orders to clean up that mess-might have convinced the Italians that the U.S. was a friend worth having. People who live in threatened nations (and who doesn't?) need more than food; they need to have some assurance that the U.S. intends to win the peace...
...Toynbee, the historian of civilizations on whom TIME wrote a cover story last March 17, was first mentioned in the issue of March 24, 1923, for his "admirably written" book, The Western Question in Greece and Turkey...
...myth of "objective journalism" reached its height about 1938-39, before the Hitler-Stalin pact, before the sharp cleavage of war reminded the Western world that the famed "two sides of a question" are not always, or even often, equal. In the confusion of the late '303, TIME departed from the principle of its prospectus, and announced that it was practicing "objective" and "scientific" journalism. It wasn't. It never will. Nor will anybody else...