Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provide that college students my finish the term they are in if they are under twenty years of age. It provides that college students who entered college before their eighteenth birthday, and who receive a notice of induction during a term in which they are actively in attendance, may ask for postponement of induction until the end of the term. If the board finds that a man entered before he was eighteen, and was in attendance during a term, and in good standing, they will grat postpoement to the end of the term...
...What we ask is that the President be backed in his request to continue the draft of younger men in order that we may get the same consideration that our Congress is so willing to give to those who have not yet seen service, or have not yet seen action. Policing is a nasty job, but so was Iwo Jima. Don't make us do both...
Edward Hull Crump has bossed Memphis so long (36 years) that many Memphians hardly know they are being bossed. "See Mr. Crump about it," is a Memphis byword. And Memphis' two newspapers (both Scripps-Howard) rarely ask him a rude question...
...wrote to Dorothy Dix, Anne Hirst, Beatrice Fairfax, et al., to ask what to do about a boy of eleven who was unstrung, disobedient and disrespectful, who stole and refused to do homework. (She took these symptoms from an actual case, whose real trouble, she explains, was that he was unloved.) Some suggested punishment or a stiff school far from home. Beatrice Fairfax sternly warned against psychiatry. Elsie Robinson (author of I Wanted Out) gave what Mrs. Steiner considers the only ethical answer: "The problem of a disobedient child is far too delicate and complicated to be solved...
...Ask the kids themselves once in a while what they want to hear...