Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young fellow like Tony Eden. But the U. S. post might be one to change the whole future of Britain's history. And he thought back to the day in 1926 when Stanley Baldwin offered him the Viceroyalty of India. At that time he went at once to ask the advice of his aged father, the late 2nd Viscount Halifax. His father took him straightway to church. Together the two prayed. When they came out, the father said: "I think you really have to go, Edward." Edward said: "I think...
...results eventually in any appreciable volume, Mr. Morgenthau must be empowered to stop the granting of tax exemptions on long-term bonds. To make that step he must ask Congress for a new law. To tax State and municipal securities, that law must be broad enough to invade States' rights. Inevitably it will be contested in the courts. His other alternative: to get a new Constitutional amendment, which no one expected would ever be ratified by the States...
Last week he announced that he would ask Congress to remove tax-exemption rights from all future bonds-Federal, State, local. There was no doubt that he would get authorization for issuing completely taxable Federal bonds, but passage of a law affecting State and local securities was another matter. Reason: opposition by municipalities and States'-righters. Townsmen, villagers and politicians girded their lobbyists last week for a death-&-taxes struggle with their Congressmen. Victory has always been on their side: Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Hoover; Treasury Secretaries Andrew Mellon and Ogden Mills all advocated abandonment of tax exemptions, were always...
...four months before May when Hitler 'was missing the bus.' As for Britain we had 900,000 unemployed and at Christmas some of the aircraft works shut for the week. Sundays and half Saturdays were sacrosanct. Last winter it was Britain who slept. Therefore we ask soberly now what is this year's winterset? . . . The Boche are working late this winter. In the shrouded factories in far Bohemia, the new centre of German arms production, there are being forged weapons of another spring's Blitzkrieg .... The entire economic effort of at least...
...There is one thing I want to ask of you all; that we give no place to weariness, to capitulation! There are those who would persuade us that the suffering of our Church is a sign that it follows a perverted way. To that we reply confidently that the Apostles have borne witness to the contrary. ... In their strength let us go forward on the way-in His footsteps-unconcerned with the censure of men, but with the peace of Christ in our hearts and with praise of God on our lips. So help...