Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this spirit, Mr. Editor, that I write this letter to you. Tiny Holland, after giving support to the refugees of the warring nations in World War No. 1, has to ask for help itself now. Thousands of Hollanders saw their possessions destroyed overnight. A procession of war stricken refugees, including hundreds of students like you and me, began to tread the road of desperate flight. To help these people, a committee has been organized under the presidency of Hendrik Willom van Loon. This "Queen Wilhelmina Fund" has a New England chapter under the presidency of Professor Auer of Harvard University...
...Remembering that the results of the war of 1914 led Italy and Germany into fascism, with the connivance or toleration of the victors, may one ask what is going to prevent the world from resorting to fascism after this war? Impoverished countries will need increased taxation and financial levies. Will not an increased governmental power be necessary which, with the cooperation of big business men and industrialists (ef. Thyssen in Germany), will impose the new social order, regulate human activity, and limit individual freedom? Marcel Francon, Instructor in Romance Languages...
...roadside his wife and daughter who had been gunned through the roof of the car. I saws blood on the cushions. Too horrible for words? No, I want to bear witness. I saw a women watching her dead baby in a wrecked truck. I heard a small child ask, "Mama, where are we going? Home? NO, the house is ill broken... la maison est toute cassee." I want to bear witness. I talked with two women who had been chased like rabbits by a plane so close that they could see the flaming machine-guns. I want to bear witness...
...years ago, hatchet-faced Private Lew Jenkins of Sweetwater, Tex. took a furlough from his job of shoeing horses at the U. S. Army's Fort Bliss. He went to Dallas to see the sights. After a few days he was broke, went to a matchmaker to ask for a fight so that he would have a place to flop at night. Back at his post, Private Jenkins was dissatisfied. The $15 he got for that one fight in Dallas was about two weeks' pay in the Army. A few weeks later, Private Jenkins bought himself...
...Meade, 50, Amherst, Va. schoolteacher. One reporter reached the Senator by phone, started off by saying timorously that he hoped the Senator wouldn't consider his inquiry impertinent. Cracked Carter Glass: "I'll say it's damned impertinent. I know what you're going to ask...