Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sputtered LaGuardia: "Have you read this paragraph? . . . Do you know what it means? Do you get that 'or not'? . . . It is intentional; it is vicious; it is malicious. Why, I ask you in the name of decency and humanity, did you put it in? Is it the [U.S.] Army? If it is the Army, come on, let us speak up. Let us say that we are going to throw [the D.P.s] to the brasshats. The program of the Army is to throw these people loose on the German economy. You know what that means...
...more conspicuously malignant than the "affaire Stavisky." It took its name from Mystery-Millionaire Alexander Stavisky, who one day in 1934 was found shot to death in a snowbound Alpine hideout (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934 et seq.). Sûretée agents had trailed him there to ask him about the failure of the municipal pawnshop at Bayonne, in which Stavisky held the controlling interest...
...every large airline except TWA helped with early contributions of $100 and up, and seven have agreed to plug the magazine with copies in every plane. Promoter Pardridge is already talking about moving Air Affairs from his fifth-floor walkup flat & office in Washington, D.C. Next month he will ask his hand-picked board of trustees (Sir William P. Hildred, Laurance S. Rockefeller, Quincy Wright, et al.) for a raise in pay, from the $250 a month he started business on. He expects...
...ask that [all listeners] agree 100% with the message . . . but we can lead them. . .at least to feel 1% or 2% like Catholics. . . . No one . . . maintains that we can save souls through music or continuity, but it certainly looks as if they help...
...find the answer, the Los Angeles Merchants and Manufacturers Association recently hired a professional pollster to ask a cross-section of Los Angeles residents. Of some 1,000 who were interviewed, more than half thought the employers must get around 50? out of every incoming dollar. Almost a third thought they got upwards of 75?. Barely one tenth of them were reasonably close to the nationwide average: 9½? out of every dollar (according to the latest figures-September 1945-of the Department of Commerce...