Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defense. The President left many an unanswered question. Which powers would be used immediately, and which ones later? Might not price ceilings on some items turn out to be price floors? Was it possible to control just a part of the nation's economy? The President had said he wanted "selective" controls. But the manufacturers or retailers whose products were "selected" could, and would, with equal justification, call them discriminatory...
...deputies of the Foreign Ministers last week chewed a tired cud of procedural issues. Their sessions were placid enough, and utterly unproductive. The biggest question before them was whether the Austrian treaty could be put ahead of the German. The bland and affable Russian delegate, A. A. Smirnov, said...
Admission. Next morning the tempest he had so casually stirred up broke on Dalton. Tory M.P. Victor Raikes told Dalton that he would ask a question in the House about the tip to the Star. After a routine Cabinet meeting, Dalton took Attlee aside and admitted his indiscretion. He offered his resignation. That afternoon a much subdued Dalton arose in the House of Commons to answer Raikes's question. "I appreciate that this was a grave indiscretion on my part," he intoned, "for which I offer my deep apologies to the House...
...principle of the inviolability of the budget," Attlee wrote to Dalton, "and the discretion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who necessarily receives many confidential communications, must be beyond question." He accepted Dalton's resignation...
...refused to be stampeded. Said the Duke: the wedding-invitation thing was "purely personal and a family matter." The Duchess-in navy blue coachman suit with a compromise-length coat, a blue-and-brown turban, beige gloves, a mink fur piece, a pearl necklace -answered the other big question quite frankly. She thought that "people should wear skirts at the length most becoming...