Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressure at Work. The committee turned up some solid facts. Without question, bustling Henry Kaiser and his lanky associate Howard Hughes had had very special treatment in wartime Washington. Ex-WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson testified that he had ordered the flying-boat contract canceled. A couple of months later "we awoke to find the job was proceeding-Mr. Nelson had gone to Mr. Jesse Jones...
...Pilot Martin and Navigator Thompson were not in the least abashed by their testimony. In reply to the question of one exasperated CAB examiner, Martin replied coolly, "Well, I still think we did all right...
...Right. The question: Should the R.P.F., which was not quite six months old, risk its prestige and its future by putting up candidates in the October municipal elections? Ten of the twelve spoke against it as premature. The movement, they said, was not sufficiently organized, candidates for all municipalities could not be found in time, a defeat at the polls would be fatal. Malraux proposed a compromise: an R.P.F. slate in two cities only, Paris and Algiers. Then the eleven lieutenants looked at the tall, slow-moving, impassive man who had galvanized and symbolized France's will to live...
...Flagstad question was another sour note to Manager Johnson. Ever since she returned from Norway last spring (TIME, April 14), her friends & foes alike had kept the issue hot. It was the Met which gave the great Wagnerian soprano her chance 13 years ago. Said Johnson: "Personally, I think it is a great loss to opera and this company that Mme. Flagstad has not returned. But if you had 7,000 subscribers who blindly agreed to take operas sight unseen at the beginning of the season, and 3,000 of them you knew had a prejudice against Mme. Flagstad...
...doctor makes a point of not coddling his vast, loyal audience. "Doctor, does it do any good in rheumatism to carry a potato in the pocket?" asked a listener last week. "A fatheaded question," replied the amiable doctor. "Now I ask you-do you really think that changes in the joints, deep-seated changes, can be effected by a spud in your jacket pocket...