Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--The War Department was understood last night to be ready to ask Congress for expansion of selective service age limits from 21-28 years to 18-44 years--a move which would increase by almost 20,000,000 the reservoir of manpower available for the armed forces...
...Since the U.S. public was being led to believe that he wanted to be a dictator, President Roosevelt asked him not to use his emergency powers. "The Commanding General of the Philippine Department of the United States Army [General MacArthur] wrote me asking what this Government was doing for the protection of the civilian population. My answer was, 'I don't know. You ask the High Commissioner [Sayre].' Finally I was asked by the High Commissioner himself to constitute a Civilian Emergency Administration, to which body I gave all the powers the Emergency Act gave me. This...
Head Coach Richard C. Harlow of the Harvard football team will bring to the pulpit of the First Baptist Church Sunday a story of football, character and religion....Coach Harlow's appearance will assume the form of an interview, in which Rev. Mr. Fowler will ask the Harvard mentor questions, the answers to which are intended to show the relationship of football with character and religion. The pastor will then preach on "The Spirit of Notre Dame." --From the Boston Globe...
...naval, union, and private business discrimination lying down. So strong was feeling that last June President Roosevelt had to issue a prettily worded but ineffective executive order against racial discrimination in defense industries to forestall a well-planned "March to Washington of 100,000 Negroes." Hillman has had to ask large employers to stop importing labor and raiding neighboring firms after summarily rejecting Negro employment applications. No governmental official, however, has been sufficiently tough with the proto-fascist overlords, in and out of uniform, who persist in making worse a situation that can be solved only by greater understanding...
...January, President Roosevelt will ask Congress to appropriate some $37 billion for fiscal 1943 (a rise of nearly $13 billion over 1942's budget). Thirty billion of this fabulous sum is for defense. Raising the money will be Mr. Morgenthau's problem. The Treasury is in the midst of a campaign to sell Defense Bonds to labor unions and employes' organizations on a voluntary "salary allotment" plan. If that scheme fails...