Word: ask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This exploration led to the question of how to get the latest news about the case. Said Teacher Anderson: "Inasmuch as we use TIME and LIFE in our classroom, it was not surprising that the nimble-witted young lady who is the district attorney should ask her teacher if he thought TIME might help." Opposing counsel took the cue and got off his own query...
Rumors that Washington Hostess Perle Mesta would be the next U.S. Ambassador to Denmark were getting a cool reception in some Copenhagen circles. "Nowadays in diplomacy," the conservative Berlingske Tidende delicately pointed out, "you do not ask questions about sex, but about qualifications...
Last week he got it-with good measure. From Washington, President Dan W. Tracy of the Electrical Workers wired Crowder an offer of $8,000. Said Tracy: "There are no strings attached to this offer . . . Truthful and undistorted coverage . . . is all that we ask and [all] we are entitled to." Replied Editor Crowder, accepting the loan: "Your [offer is] a declaration of emancipation of all the rural press...
Editor Wiese did not underestimate her. He well knew that Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the Journal's star contributors. Her 1937 memoirs (This Is My Story) and monthly question & answer page (If You Ask Me) had helped push the Journal to its No. 1 spot in the U.S. women's magazine field (TIME, Oct. 4). He could hardly believe his ears when Mrs. Roosevelt told him that the Journal's co-editors, Bruce and Beatrice Gould, had found fault with her latest volume of memoirs and asked her to let them help rewrite it. Editor Wiese...
Every teacher and every student, and every citizen in the country has the right to ask: what does the Commission's policy mean? Does the Commission want every faculty and school staff in America investigated--thoroughly and completely--for Communists? Does the Commission want every professor and instructor required to state his political affiliation? To be plain, how much of our civil liberties are we expected to surrender...