Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the U.N. Secretariat priding itself on its democracy and with many political suites available, I ask that our drivers have reasonable accommodations with at least some chairs to sit on and some water to drink...
Austria's four Communist deputies (Ernst Fischer, Johann Koplenig, Franz Honner, Viktor Elser) wrote to Moscow to ask whether something could not be done about the prisoners. Last week Generalissimo Stalin graciously replied: "The Soviet Government has decided to speed up the release and transport of Austrian prisoners of war . . . in such a way as to grant the return of all Austrians before the end of the year. . . ." As an afterthought, he added: "The Austrian Government will be informed of [this]. . . ." Vienna's Communist Volksstimme jubilantly pointed the moral: "Today not only Austrian women but the entire Austrian...
Undesirable Stimuli. "First of all, Catholics would ask Freudians to throw out their bootleg philosophy and theology and provide themselves with some properly aged nutriment. . . . Freudians need to recognize frankly that to prescribe for the education or re-education of anyone, a philosophy, a Weltanschauung, is necessary. . . . They would find that [Catholicism] . . . has much to recommend it. They would find a Weltanschauung elaborated by many generations of contributors who have produced a very thorough analysis of the end of man; namely, the purpose and goal of human life...
Last week the business manager of the '47-'48 Class Album, scheduled to appear next May, phoned Lehman Hall to ask for the list of purveyors that the University has furnished student publications in the past years. The subsequent refusal to give any sort of list has resulted in the probable revision of plans for the Album, as well as the '51 Freshman Red Book. As soon as an outcry arose at this unforeseen, crippling move, University officials stiffened, a hasty conference between Lehman and University Halls resulted in a hidden-ball play as to the responsibility, a throwing...
...hidden. Eventually the papers moved, with Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, Lord Talbot de Malahide, to Malahide Castle in Ireland. Famed U.S. collector Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach cabled Lord Talbot an offer of $250,000 for the Malahide Papers. Said Lord Talbot: "Who is this person? Please ask him not to correspond with me. We have not been introduced...