Word: ask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Committee members contend that the theater management has acted illegally and will ask it to end all restrictions on HLU programs. If no settlement can be made, then HLU will sue the theater for damages and seek an injunction against future pressure on distributors. However, the committee declined to reveal what form legal action will take...
...Grasp the Future. Mao began to develop a social conscience. Once there was a famine in the Shao Shan district and the poor, asking help from the rich farmers, started a movement called "Eat Rice Without Charge." This seemed reasonable to Mao, but not to his father who, like other farmers, kept selling rice to cities despite the local famine. Young Mao read pamphlets about the Western powers that were dismembering China. He read books that proclaimed China's need to modernize herself. He began to cut classes and teach himself from books. The principal reprimanded...
...confessions in local cases, because they think it might prejudice the defendant's right to an impartial trial. In the nine years in which Rule 904 has been in force the press has never seriously challenged it. When in doubt, an editor usually calls up a judge to ask what to print. So last July the city's dailies kept obediently mum on the confession, though Washington (D.C.) papers, which circulate in Baltimore, carried it. Local radio stations broadcast the story-and were cited for contempt of court for violating the judges' rule...
...attack whatever has been launched [by the Roman Catholic Church] on this constitutional principle embodied in the First Amendment. We are not assaulting any constitutional principle when we ask that public and parochial school children of all denominations be included in Government-initiated public welfare programs. The United States Supreme Court, in the Everson decision, established the constitutionality of free bus rides for all children. It is not conceivable that anyone would challenge the constitutionality of health services...
...strategic materials, said it would step up its purchases of 68 critical items to bring the stockpile up to 39% of planned size. The $525 million authorized for purchases this fiscal year, said Board Chairman Donald F. Carpenter, had already been spent or contracted for, and Carpenter will ask Congress for another $310 million. The stockpile's eventual value...