Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next morning early we were swamped with telephone calls. The British Embassy wanted copies-the Psychological Warfare Branch asked for copies to be distributed to its operators throughout the Balkans-the Yugoslav Legation placed a sizable order for Tito and his staff. Rest camps and hospitals were quick to ask for more, and all hotels in Rome frequented by Fifth Army men on leave sold out in a few hours...
...moon-faced Dr. George William Taylor, longtime vice chairman of the Board. Dr. Taylor, a professor of labor relations at the University of Pennsylvania, wasted no time putting his ex-boss up on the edge of the frying pan. At week's end he announced that he would ask new Stabilizer Davis to ease up on the Vinson ruling, make fringe increases easier for labor...
There are the older men (mostly over 35) who are merely müde, müde, müde (tired, tired, tired) and only ask for Brot, Arbeit, Familie (bread, work, family). Close under the surface of their wooden faces is one emotion: deep, somber despair. All of them-old and young, disillusioned and arrogant-have one concern: "What is going to happen to us after the war?" The question uppermost in their minds: ''Will they turn us over to the Russians...
President Getulio Vargas last week told Brazilians the one thing they most wanted to know: whether he would be a candidate in the forthcoming elections-Brazil's first free balloting in over ten years. Said Vargas: "I ask nothing for myself. I am not a candidate." He added that he would not quit the Presidency "either through violence or aggression" but would turn over his office "to my legally chosen successor." He did not say that he would refuse to be drafted...
Youth's Companion & McClure's. Grown seasoned and successful as a reporter, Baker still yearned to write fiction. He wrote to the Youth's Companion to ask their requirements. The Companion, he was informed, wanted stories of irreproachable moral tone, with well-devised plots, which would not revive sectional bitterness between North and South, or between rich and poor. Baker began to write such stories, fast. Once, staying at home while his wife and baby went to Michigan, he sat in the half-darkened dining room on hot summer mornings, went nowhere...