Word: asked
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After three months of angling and investigating (through FBI, Army Intelligence, etc.) the Harold L. Ickeses finally got some hired hands for their Maryland farm: American-born Japanese from an Arizona relocation camp. The young wife of the curmudgeon Secretary (see p. 102) had taken care to ask the neighbors how they felt about having Nisei in their midst, got two reactions: 1) approval, 2) inquiries about the chances of getting the same sort of help...
...spits on the U.S., spies for the Führer, tries a divide-&-conquer technique on the house hold, plots to break up his uncle's marriage to a Jewish schoolteacher. When he almost murders his little cousin, his patient elders are ready to give up. But they ask themselves what chance there is of rehabilitating 12,000,000 kids if they can not cope with one. They do a good deal of ferreting into Emil's youthfully warped nature. Emil himself, as the curtain falls, shows signs of changing...
...ask him to go slow...
...venerable, profitable New York Trust Co. announced last week that it will ask stockholders' permission to sell 100,000 shares of $25-par stock. The sale price was not announced, but it will be around the current market price of $85 a share, should net the bank some...
History as Inexperience. The year of decision really begins in the White House with James K. Polk scheming to get California away from Mexico, Oregon from England. "Who is James K. Polk?" Americans asked when he was nominated. They still ask. Yet Polk, says Historian DeVoto, was "the only 'strong' president between Jackson and Lincoln." He had "guts," "integrity," could not be "brought to heel." But he was also "pompous," "suspicious," "secretive," "humorless," "vindictive." He believed that "wisdom and patriotism were Democratic monopolies." He made an effort to be generous, sometimes confided to his diary: "Although a Whig...