Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alabama's cotton-conscious Bankhead rail against the menace of rayon ("We can't let 3,000,000 families in the South face starvation"). ¶ Decided to decline, with regret, an invitation to Congressmen to visit the British Parliament. Foreign Relations Chairman Tom Connally said he would ask for a "rain check...
...recognition, left eleven war plants without foremen. Intense, young (32) F.A.A. President Robert H. Keys, lashing out in all directions, blamed the strike on 1) stubborn plant management, 2) the Government, 3) a hostile National Association of Manufacturers. Pleading the case for his foremen, President Keys said: "All they ask is an avenue for negotiation. . . ." Explained Foreman H. J. Finn, whose son was reported missing in the Pacific last July: "I am fighting for a principle and my son was fighting for a principle, too. Both are important...
...politicians get themselves all worked up and imagine that all the rest of us are worked up too, when the truth is that the 'man in the street' is blissfully unconcerned. We venture to say, for example, that if we walked up Sparks Street this afternoon and asked every second man we met what Lord Halifax said, he would look at us blankly and ask: 'When did he speak...
With a little more official latitude in the wearing of uniforms, it is interesting to watch for different combinations. Ask H. Peterson if it's O. K. to wear white cap covers with blue shirts. Classic attire seen thus far was khakis with a blue shirt and plastic buttons...
...President should ask faculty advice before making decisions but should make them alone and "take the consequences" of approval or of a no-confidence vote...