Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wheeler: "One can probably excuse Secretary Stimson on the ground of his age and incapacity. Everyone . . . knows that the old gentleman is unable to carry on the duties of his office and some go so far as to say that ... he is gaga. ... If it is near treason to ask the President to keep his sacred promises . . . then ... I am guilty of 'near treason," whatever that may be." He admitted that 1,000,000 cards had been sent out under his Congressional frank, declared that: 1) the America First Committee had paid for the printing; 2) the cards...
...scandals, "exposed" the mail-carrying airlines of the U.S. Black charged that Walter Folger ("High-Hat"*) Brown, Postmaster General under Herbert Hoover, had granted lush mail-subsidy contracts to major airlines, had thus evaded the law requiring competitive bidding for Government contracts. The President did not wait to ask questions. He called in Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of War Dern. Then he canceled the airmail contracts and ordered the Army to take over the flying of the U.S. mail until a new contract-subsidy system had been worked...
...leaving you temporarily, I ask you to endure our hardships and sufferings, both physical and spiritual, calmly, courageously and with confidence. You will face your destiny with a strong heart and a proud spirit...
Dare. Senator Wheeler next dared the President to ask Congress for a declaration of war. If Congress approved such a declaration, said Burton Wheeler, he would be one of the first to back...
...that the end. This week the President made ready to ask Congress for a whopping big addition to the funds authorized for Britain and China under the Lend-Lease Act. It was hinted that the sum requested might come to as much as $7,000,000,000. In far-off Argentina the Buenos Aires Standard looked on in awe, headlined a story about the President's appropriations: "Oliver Twist of the West," after Dickens' hungry boy who wanted more treacle...