Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell you, if you ask, that he likes it here. Considering the amount of time the boys have to spend on studies, pool and billiards are a lot more popular in the Union than they are outside. Billiards, of course, is the nicer game. The shots are much cleaner, and it doesn't have that back-room atmosphere...
Principle In Chicago, a census taker rang the doorbell of Negress Ethel Strouther, politely began to ask questions. Vexed, she grabbed a bottle, flourished it over her head and, as he fled, shouted: "I don't talk to strange...
...shortages of at least $72,000 in State funds, which Run nells had handled for eight years, was told that Runnells had been a large and lavish liver, a collector of nude snapshots (some of Augusta women). Last week authorities were hunting for the photo graphic subjects, to ask for more details of Controller Runnells' various affairs...
Said the Association of American Railroads, more than once: "All we ask is an equal chance." In 1933 Congress appointed a Federal Coordinator of Transportation to study, among other things, subsidies...
...Sent to Congress a plea to let him spend next fiscal year's relief fund (present Budget estimate: $975,000,000) in eight months, ask a deficiency appropriation later. Reason: business and tax receipts are below expectations, relief demands are up. Said Washington wisemen: without such authorization, Democrats would be unable to load up relief rolls at election time...