Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under National Affairs, TIME, Aug. 19, you quote a German broadcaster as follows: "Who in the world ever expected a victor to provide his enemies or former enemies with food, I ask...
This is the terse and unsatisfactory description you find when you look up Harvard in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, fourteenth edition. Ask a middle western business man about Harvard, and he will tell you that Harvard is a hotbed of radicals and crackpots. Ask a communist, and he will explain that Harvard is a citadel of reaction, and that the University's much-vaunted liberalism is so much window-dressing. Ask a Cambridge citizen, and he will inform you that Harvard is a fur-lined cradle for the idle and arrogant sons of the rich. Go to Mickey Sullivan, the Donald...
...learn a lot by observing and participating in the community you are going to live in for four years. If there's anything more you want to know about it, just ask a Sophomore...
Well-informed friends guessed that Jesse Jones would keep his place as official U. S. moneylender, and take the Cabinet post too. Early this week word sprang from the White House that the President would ask for a Congressional joint resolution to permit the exceptional Mr. Jones to hold two Federal jobs. But his salary would not exceed the $15,000 a year a Cabinet member gets. Mr. Jones is many times a millionaire. His present wage as Loan Administrator...
...Sixth Avenue, edited a Bronx newspaper; his return to Russia after the March Revolution of 1917, where he joined Lenin, helped to stage the October Revolution, conducted the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. Because it seemed a major point of proletarian protocol, he wired Lenin to ask whether he should wear a tailcoat to the peace celebration. Lenin answered: "If it will help to bring peace, go in a petticoat...