Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declared that Hitler "did not ask me to hand over our fleet to him. Everyone knows-and the English better than anyone-that I will never hand it over. The Chancellor did not ask me for any colonial territory. He did not ask me to declare war on England...
...case of what might seem to the layman a clear mandate, a two-to-one majority demanding a new food policy. Perhaps there are reasons, as yet undisclosed, for maintaining the present system. But since the question was considered fit subject for a poll, one is tempted to ask just what majority would warrant action. One group alone, those who now take ten meals a week, opposed the change. They constitute 7.2% of the College. It seems hardly just that so small a group should stand in the way of a change which would so manifestly benefit vast majority...
...allies and conquered territories . . . could produce three times the aluminum that his company was producing in America, and I stated that I thought he should inform our Government of the true situation and not permit us to be caught in the same position as France. I urged him to ask for Government funds sufficient to enable his company to produce 1,000,000,000 lb. of aluminum. . . . Mr. Davis expressed himself that he felt I was unnecessarily alarmed, and that he could not make this recommendation, stating that in his opinion there was ample aluminum and that there would...
...When the German Minister of Justice tells the Association of University Professors that the old ideal of objectivity was nonsense and that today the German professor must ask himself one question: 'does my scientific work serve the welfare of National Socialism?' he is voicing a doctrine which if broadly applied spells the end of Western scientific thought...
Ismet would wait until Curzon had exhausted himself in an eloquent tirade, then apologize for his deafness and ask Lord Curzon to repeat the argument...