Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actress Tallulah Bankhead's country home recently for a 3 p.m. pre-cover story (TIME, Nov. 22) interview, Tallulah, "up and dressed," met them at the door and began to talk. After 20 breathless minutes she suddenly stopped her torrential discourse and said: "Now, ask me another question." Says Miss Sulzberger: "We hadn't even opened our mouths...
After 17 days of golf and rest in Arizona sunshine, Tom Dewey returned last week to his job in Albany. He had gained five pounds and his tanned jowls showed it. Newsmen pressed him with questions about his future. Would he run in 1950 for a third term as governor of New York? Dewey smiled, reminded the reporters that he had answered that question the day after election. He had said then "I have no such plans." Now he added: "I will let you know if I change my mind...
...that you, Mr. Harvard, read thoughtfully again Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, go over to the Memorial Church, and then ask yourself whether bowling alleys, swimming pools, facilities for dramatics, and similar whatnots for personal enjoyment, or even for personal self-improvement, really yield the answer to the War Memorial question...
Bender and the Council first clashed on the question of an investigation of dining halls by outside experts. The Dean said such a survey was opposed by the Administration for two reasons...
...population. (Nevada, for instance, has one-sixteenth the electoral vote of New York, but only one one-hundred-and-thirtieth of the population of New York. This is because under the Constitution every state has a base electoral vote of three.) But this idea is politically out of the question. Southern states with suffrage restrictions would lose much influence in national elections; they would battle any plan for direct election...