Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ask you boys who would you have on your football team, your police force, or in your army: a man who, seeing the light, has ambition, the willingness, yea the guts, to fight for what he considers just, whether it be on a firing line or walking in front of a factory with his banner held aloft...
...peace at home, and that, through obedience to thy law, we may show forth thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in thee to fail; all which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord...
...through to absolute victory." At this, the biggest cheers of the day. "We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. . . . We will gain the inevitable triumph-so help us God. I ask that the Congress declare . . . a state of war. . . ." The President left the House. Members began roaring impatiently: "Vote! Vote! Vote!" The Speaker gaveled for order. The Senate left...
...declared war on both the U.S. and Britain, had attacked Malaya. Unlike the President, the Prime Minister needed to wait for no formalities. At 12:30 on Monday he held a meeting of the War Cabinet. To British Ambassador Sir Leslie Robert Craigie in Tokyo went orders to ask for his passport and to tell Japan that Britain was at war. This was a full nine hours before President Roosevelt signed the U.S. declaration. Churchill had nearly lived up to his November promise to declare war on Japan "within the hour" after an attack...
...Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau declared that unless Congress gave him $4,502,554 to collect the $5 "use" tax on automobiles, which U.S. motorists are supposed to pay next year, he would ask Congress to repeal...