Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, many newspapers decided, like Uncle Toby, that they should wipe it up and say no more about it. Nevertheless, the fact that the press had so misinterpreted events right under its nose raised the grave question of whether it was doing an equally bad job in interpreting news in other fields than politics...
Once, when an internal revenue man came around to question him, suspicious of the number of exemptions he claimed, Papa Conway discovered that he had forgotten one; instead of paying more, he got a credit...
...Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, then taught for twelve years at Trinity before returning to Oxford. Over the years, John Lowe has never changed the quiet pattern of his life, and does not intend to change it now. Says he of his new job: "It's just a question of continuity, just a question of carrying...
...that he (Churchill) could speak for the U.S. on Balkan affairs when he next saw Stalin. F.D.R. had written a cable to Stalin to the same effect; when Hopkins heard about it he ordered the White House map room to stop the Stalin cable. The cable officers obeyed without question. Then Hopkins went to F.D.R.'s bedroom, where the President was shaving, told him what he had done, and persuaded him that the U.S. should always speak for itself. Roosevelt admitted that he had made a serious mistake, and took it all back...
...F.D.R.: "He was the Commander in Chief, not only of our armed forces, but of our generation." It is also Sherwood's contention, and he does much to document it, that in the war years Harry Hopkins used his vast, F.D.R.-given power wisely. Later historians may question the wisdom, but they will not be able to question the power. Nor will any historian of the Roosevelt era be able to ignore this book...