Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seventh day, a 55-year-old man in Passaic, N.J. asked Joey Hicswa's parents to write the Government "and ask them if I could take Joe's place...
...Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
...stage-idol's welcome in Manhattan, gave swarming reporters and cameramen a performance to remember. Wrapped in mink and hung with diamond-&-sapphire earrings, she got For She's a Jolly Good Fellow from the ship's crewmen, cried back happily, "What more could a girl ask?" and faced the press. "I'm an extinct volcano," said she, but soon became active...
...scared." McNarney was in Berlin at a meeting of the Four-Power Control Council. The G.I.s showed what they thought of his absence by booing and hissing his name. McNarney, well aware of the Army's dependence on Congress, said mildly, when he returned: "I ask you to discontinue [the demonstrations] for the time being...
Premier Kijuro Shidehara was abed with a cold, but he was not as sick as his Government. MacArthur's order covered a majority of Shidehara's colleagues, and sent them scurrying to the Premier's bedside for counsel. Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshida was assigned to ask the Allied Commander for clarification. Should the Cabinet resign en masse, merely eliminate its undesirables, or stay on as exempt...