Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present at the first burial of American dead. . . . The cemetery is on the edge of the town. When we arrived, the graves were all dug and a number of the coffins had already been lowered, all the work being done by charcoal-black Senegalese. A French official arrived to ask if a French military representative would be welcome. He received an affirmative and shortly afterward several French officers arrived. While we were waiting for the last of the coffins to be lowered, we were introduced to the American officers, including the battery of chaplains. One was a big husky Irish...
...cost of farm labor into the farm parity formula. Last week the House Agricultural Committee quietly approved a bill which would do it all over again. Although the bill would add another $3½ billions to the nation's food costs, the committee did not bother to ask the opinion of OPA Boss Prentiss Brown-who had fought the issue as a Senator last year-or of Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes. Said the bill's sponsor, Georgia's swarthy Stephen M. Pace: "No hearings were needed...
...your friends came back home from a long stay in Washington, what is the first question you would ask...
...After Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France, including Paris, had been conquered, certain important civic and business leaders in this country came to see me to ask that I talk to certain very important people who had come from Europe authorized to speak for some of the highest Nazi and military officials. I looked them up and found these same representatives came with certain credentials that were unquestionably bona fide, vouched for by some of the finest banking facilities in this country...
Perkins expects the orders to begin arriving on Monday in large batches. His office will then sort and distribute them to individual reservists. This method will remedy the problem anticipated yesterday, when it seemed that men would have to stay in Cambridge to get orders or else ask House janitors to forward them...