Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who would broadcast the ill-treatment he received from the French, a Jew would be the last one, even though conditions were as bad as Rothschild relates. I am therefore prompted to ask whether you check up on the possibilities of propaganda leaking into your Letters through the use of false information and false signatures of the person or persons sending these letters...
Exhausted after three straight hours of rehearsed at the Schubert theatre, Colbina Wright, Jr. sunk into a vacant seat and smiled wearily: "Now do you wonder why I get mad when people ask me whether I am serious about my career? Do you think I'd be working like this if I was just having a good time, Why last spring in New York we played 45 shows a week with Eddie Cantor...
...printed Mme Flagstad's portrait on its front cover, John clipped and sent it to her to be autographed. Instead of the cover, Mme Flagstad sent back a large autographed original portrait of herself. Overwhelmed by the great one's friendly gesture, the lad wrote her to ask whether he could meet her when she visited Rochester on a forthcoming Metropolitan road tour. Gladly, she replied, would she see John backstage between the second and third acts. The date was kept and they had a pleasant little visit. The following year, when she sang in Rochester, they...
...Scottish Chauffeur R. MacBurnie: "If you cannot grant me my liberty, by which I mean my freedom of conscience, then I ask you to sentence me to death so that I may die with a clear conscience. If you are not going to sentence me to death, I should like to catch the 5:20 train." Verdict: unconditional exemption...
This is a typical howdy-do from Uncle Sam Calling, eight-week radio series now planted on 662 U. S. radio stations by the U. S. Census Bureau. Many a censusee does not like the prospect of being asked, and having to answer, a raft of Nosy Parker questions: whether he has a bathroom, a mortgage; where he lived five years ago (for an insight into migrant labor), his race (which most anthropologists say is unanswerable), whether he has been on WPA, CCC, NYA, etc. For the first time in history, the April census will also ask the "amount...