Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ask Mr. McNiff," words almost synonymous with the end of a Widener book hunt, are not heard as often as usual these days. The reason is simple: Philip J. McNiff is seldom around to be asked. The familiar Reading Room superintendent is spending most of his time getting ready for the opening of Lamont Library--selecting the books, planning the interior, figuring out the systems of open and closed reserves. In short, he is getting the chance to put his ideas about the "service nature" of a college library into effect...
...chief motive in seeing the President was to tell [him] that food commodity prices were too high, and that he should ask the special session of Congress to fix a price on wheat based on parity. I told him that, if this were not done . . . wheat could be priceless before another crop was delivered to market. I explained the fact to him and to reporters . . . that I knew only one neutral man in the U.S., and he is Uncle Sam. The Government is the only source of control which can establish a price fair to me, as a producer...
...himself kept routine business to a holiday minimum. He popped over to Union Station to see the Freedom Train, peered at one of General George Washington's army supply accounts, noted: "Rum on every page." He received a delegation of National Guardsmen, told them that he would again ask Congress to authorize universal military training. He was presented with a maroon tie, emblazoned with a Missouri mule leading a camel bearing three wise men. Ex-Haberdasher Truman promptly twisted the tie into a salesman's knot, observed: "I haven't forgotten...
When the Japanese surrendered, the Reds claimed the surrender was to them. The people ask: "And who will crush the Reds, who will beat them, Father? Tell us, for the love...
...Call for Help. Despite this attitude, there have been hints that Pakistan might turn to Russia for financial help. And such hints, in turn, might be connected with reports that Pakistan would ask Washington for a loan. By last weekend, however, Washington had received no such request, and no Pakistan official had offered any public solution of the mess...