Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clouds of Europe's troubles hung darkly over Washington last week. Top strategists of the State Department were seldom out of conferences. The hot question of U.S. foreign policy was: Will the U.S. send troops to Greece...
...chief justice and a minister of justice." One of the titles of the 1,300-odd-year-old office is Keeper of the King's Conscience. "The King's conscience," confided the Lord Chancellor, "is much easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been on many a plain citizen's mind. How was it in that long judicial wig, in the summer? The Lord Chancellor's reply for history: "Very uncomfortable." And ditto for the sack of wool which tradition makes...
...Governor Earl Warren. The press was promptly awash in dewy anticipation. "We did a little sight-seein'," reported Folsom, a widower and father of two. "And ... we had some dinner and dancin'." Was it serious between him and Virginia? "That's a 'no comment' question, honey," said he. But he was shortly moved to an extension of remarks. "Takin' a girl out is all part of nature," mused the rough-hewn Governor. ". . . And I'm a man who likes to get close to nature...
Last week, as workmen installed air conditioning and loudspeakers in the two Louisville libraries, University phones were jammed with "Neighborhood" applicants. Said tall, easygoing John Taylor: "There is no question of the demand." Said the Louisville Courier-Journal: "There is no question of the . . . need...
...Many Slaves? Dallin asks and tries to answer the big question: How many forced-labor camps and prisoners are there in Russia? After compiling a list of 125 camps, scattered from Murmansk to Vladivostok, he has to confess that the catalogue is far from complete. But it is by far the biggest list yet compiled. Examining all estimates, Dallin concludes that Soviet slave-labor camps contain not less than 12,000,000 men, women & children. But he cites other estimates whose figures have soared as high as 30 million. Two of the biggest slave-labor camps: Solovetski Island...