Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a poor Presbyterian pastor and none too familiar with Oliver W. Gilpin's Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Frankly I do agree with him that I too prefer to have the President "blessed" rather than merely given "wisdom." We Presbyterians ask that God may "look (upon him) with favor . . . imbue (him) with the spirit of wisdom, goodness, and truth...
...fight in foreign lands outside America except in case of attack.' " Such remarks, added to the President's apparent lack of urgency about the defense program, the impression that visitors have lately received in talking to him, have bolstered rumors that have made both interventionists and isolationists ask: Does the President mean to keep the U.S. out of war no matter what happens to Britain? Does the President mean to let Britain go after all? His declaration of aid for Russia did not support this view. But the theory that he would revert to a new, super...
This focusing of responsibility troubled Elzie and Early. They crossed the fields to ask their mother what to do. She told them to take the Negro back to jail and let the law take its course. At midnight, bruised but still unafraid, Spivey was back in his cell. The boys in his cell said they had figured there was a better chance of seeing their mothers come back from the grave than of ever seeing him alive again...
...ask that the peoples of the Axis nations be immediately assured that once hostilities are over they will be invited to share in making the plans for the peace and the new international order...
...save its face, get the securities to market fast. SEC modified its cherished rule. New York State Electric was permitted to sell the bonds immediately to the highest bidder, Equitable Life Assurance Society (for 104,015) and to ask again this week for bids on the preferred, which the company had by then sweetened up with a 57% dividend rate...