Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the air was thick with demands for investigations and reforms. Newspapers reminded readers that there were 1,040 other known sex offenders whom the state had freed after they had served their sentences. Governor Robert Bradford declared that he would ask for a mental hospital for psychopathic delinquents, not now committable as insane. A special legislative commission declared that Massachusetts was 50 years behind in treatment of child delinquency...
Amid shouts, plump Arthur Creech-Jones, Colonial Secretary, tried to placate the members. He had no authority to grant a reprieve; but he would ask the King's representative, the Gold Coast's Governor. "Tell him!" boomed several M.P.s. Red-faced, Creech-Jones promised to send the Governor a telegram, advising him of the House's "very strong feeling in all quarters...
Democratic bosses point to the Beacon Street homes of the reformers and ask their followers whether they want any help from the "silk stockings" in running their lives. The League points out of its Beacon Street windows across the Common to some of the worst slums in New England and asks what they are doing there. In 1940, the Housing Authority found that one third of Boston's dwellings had no heat but stoves. The survey classed one fifth of the homes substandard and reported that half of these had no running water, private baths, or toilets. "And this condition...
...week's end, Buffalo's Mayor Dowd decided that he could, after all, do something about the teachers' troubles. He pledged the teachers raises of $300 to $625 (considerably less than they had asked). He would ask Albany for new taxes to pay for the bill. The teachers accepted his offer, and the school bells rang again in Buffalo...
Fontana's costs, largely because of the $105,000,000 it still owes RFC, are far higher than Geneva's. So Kaiser's most practical move was to ask the railroads which serve him to give him the same reduction as Geneva had gotten from its carriers. He wanted lower rates on all steelmaking materials brought to Fontana as well as on his outbound shipments...