Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ask that the question of our loyalty be determined only by the facts, and not by the comments of embryonic fascists. Surely, if we are willing to being interned as a matter of morale and strategy, fair judgment is not too much to expect...
...therefore ask the German Reichstag for an explicit endorsement of my legal right to demand of everyone the discharge of his duties or to cashier anyone from his post or office if I consider that he has failed in his duty...
...plain enough that Adolf Hitler's judiciary was bothering him. But the world outside wondered what was going on beneath the judges' benches to make Adolf Hitler publicly ask for the confirmation of powers he had long since wielded...
Every night the human guinea pigs, after eating "test food," went to bed with a battery of scientific apparatus hitched up to their toes, a microphone strapped to their stomachs. They did not have very comfortable nights. Ohio State Physiologist Hugh Boyd McGlade woke them periodically to ask if they were dreaming. He discovered that dreams were heralded by a "rapid rumbling" below the stomach, a twitching of the right foot. Good food to induce dreams, he found, was bananas. When his guinea pigs ate ice cream, fresh tomatoes or canned pineapple, they neither twitched, rumbled nor dreamed...
Thus radio Berlin tried to make capital of the news that the Coughlinite weekly Social Justice had been barred from the U.S. mails. The crackdown on Coughlin was not going to stop there. Attorney.General Biddle announced that he would ask a Federal grand jury (the same jury which nailed Nazi Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck and Ham Fish's Secretary George Hill) to indict Social Justice for sedition, on grounds of peddling "enemy propaganda" and "a systematic and unscrupulous attack upon the war effort of our nation, both civilian and military...