Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City one day last week ten housewives, led by a public schoolteacher, made the rounds of their neighborhood meat and food dealers to ask their help in combating the black market. They got little comfort. At one store jeering employes told them: "Go home and wash your dishes...
...pays him $25,000 a year, but it does not ask him to support any policy with which he disagrees. An ardent Roosevelt follower, in 1936 he declined to draw cartoons for pro-Landon editorials. In the final weeks of the campaign, the only Fitz cartoons the P-D carried were innocuous drawings of elephants and donkeys competing. On occasion Fitz has also refused to draw to order for Collier's, for which he has worked on the side since 1925. He turned down one Collier's request-for a cartoon to illustrate an article by Willkie-solely...
Arkham House, publishers, wrote from Sauk City, Wis., to ask whether he had anything on hand. The presiding genius of Arkham House is 3 7-year-old Sauk City-born August Derleth, an avid writer of supernatural tales himself. Derleth has brought out upward of a dozen books under the Arkham imprint, all of them dealing with ghostly matters. Among his latest books, under another imprint: Who Knocks?, a Derleth-edited anthology subtitled Twenty Masterpieces of the Spectral for the Connoisseur...
...objections to world government, that the people are not ready for such a step, drew Van Doren's answer: "Why not ask them? They've never been asked about it before." He also believed that the responsibility of the people would eliminate the danger of tryanny in the proposed super government...
Although no plans have been made for a poll of the Business School, the College Student Council Committee revealed that it will ask the Business School Student Council to consider the plan after its election next week...