Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lavish Display. With cheerful informality she recalled how her office was in the habit of calling Andy May's office as often as three times a day. Once she had heard him interrupt a conversation to ask: "What about the $3,000?" Another time a company officer took an envelope containing $1,000 to Congressman May's office...
...Bumming is tough. You just can't go up and ask a man for a dime: he knows you can't get nothin' for a dime any more. Trouble is there are too many jobs offered along Madison Street. The railroads are doing everything except promising vice-presidencies. You can get 84?an hour with $1.50 a day for board and room, plus transportation from West Madison Street to wherever the gandy-dancing job is. But the railroad employment offices on West Madison Street don't get any more men today than they did before...
...gave a press conference. A correspondent confronted him with the UNRRA statement that supplies to Greece would be stopped because of political discrimination in handing them out, whereat Tsaldaris lost his temper and shouted: "Iff a lie, it's a slander! What right have you got to ask about the internal affairs of Greece?" The reporters began chanting "Freedom of the press!" and the Premier yelled and babbled until Greek officials hustled the audience out of earshot. One of the Greeks put his hand to his head and mumbled...
...clearly on the Right or on the Left." Salazar's own policies have encouraged both the disillusionment and the drift to the Right and Left extremes. Last month in Lisbon an old streetcar motorman, who earns $30 a month after 25 years' service, summed it up: "I ask only for the minimum to enable me and my family to live. Salazar gives us only the right to die. . . . Yes, I belong to the Anti-Fascist Unity Council ... I can't tell you how. The M.U.D.? Too much lawyers, too many words, too afraid...
...labored on a merger plan. It brought forth not one document, but two. The majority report set up a basis for the proposed merger. The minority report deplored the proposal: ". . . We cannot believe that it is right in the sight of God and in loyalty to His Church to ask the Church to study . . . what we are profoundly convinced is repugnant to the mind of Christ." One member, the Rt. Rev. G. Ashton Oldham, bishop of Albany, N.Y., signed neither report...