Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl Browder made no reply. But at week's end came news that he had applied to the State Department for a passport to Russia. No one knew for sure whether his purpose was to ask the Soviet Union for reinstatement as a Communist or to exploit it as a capitalist...
...constitutionality was not one of them. The Government planned, by treaty, simply to "assign" the world capital area to UNO-without ceding the territory or relinquishing sovereignty over it. UNO could buy up the property directly from its owners (as the State Department wistfully hoped it would), or ask the Government to seize it by right of eminent domain...
...FOREIGN NEWS) also heard Russia's Andrei Vishinsky make an unprecedented advance toward world cooperation. Prosecutor Vishinsky was denouncing Britain, but he is too shrewd a man to ignore the application of his words to the U.S.S.R. Said he to UNO's Security Council: "I would ask whether the United Nations can be an effective organ if national sovereignty is not limited. The nations must sacrifice a part of their sovereignty if the United Nations is to be a real and effective organ...
Suspicious leaders rose to ask suspicious questions. Labor's Herbert Morrison countered: "There is something curious about this indignation of the Conservative Party over a little bit of territory's being added to the British Empire." The storm extended to the Brooke household. The Raja's good-looking nephew and onetime heir apparent, Anthony, wrote letters to the press denouncing his uncle's gift as an "anachronistic arrangement...
...swindled me out of only $2,000? I thought it was five"; "I have this idea: to paint the white marble (which immediately surrounds [my] hall fireplace) the same strong red of the hall walls, & then cover it with Mr. De Forest's thin arabesque-cut brass sheets. . . . Ask . . . if that can be done"; "Go to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Hudson R.R. and see if they will rent me a special sleeping car. . . . Go directly to the President of the Company. . . . Hurry!"; "No provision is made for a wooden barrack for the soldiers who guard General Grant's tomb...