Word: asked
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...enemies) to the more & more frightening costs of World War II. This was accomplished when Mr. Chamberlain caused to be read in the House of Commons a quiet little Treasury minute. It explained that henceforth His Majesty's Government, when it needs more millions, will simply ask the House to appropriate "tokens" nominally of ?100 ($400)-each token to stand for whatever vast sum is secretly decided by the War Cabinet...
This letter was written by a Finnish soldier to his sister. We were just wondering why the soldier would ask his sister for a gun if there were two dead soldiers with automatic pistols...
Said State's Attorney William G. Kerbin, commenting on the storming of the Snow Hill jail: "First we've got to find out who did it. ... It is my job to prosecute the men arrested by the sheriff. Ask him." No action could be taken until after the murder case was settled, explained Sheriff Hall, refreshed by his sleep. But "there has to be an investigation," he pronounced...
...think this is true, watch some good colored dancers when they aren't showing off. To the charge that jitterbugging is "sexually stimulating to the point of degeneracy" advanced by such an eminent authority on the dance as one of Harvard's professor of Sociology, we ask how one can worry about sex at a distance of six feet when most of the brain space is being devoted to the quite difficult problem of keeping one's balance. Jitterbugging is hard work--vaguely like a track meet. Seems to me that the dreamy-eyed couples floating along to Guy Lombardo...
...carry Ohlson on inspection tours over his lonely tracks) and "went outside" (Alaskan for getting out of Alaska-A. R. R. employes get a 26-day vacation with pay each year so they can do it). Last week in New Deal Washington Republican Ohlson was getting ready to ask Congress for an appropriation of some $5,000,000 to build a 14-mile cutoff to the sea some 66 miles above Seward (see map) to make the Fairbanks-to-the-States run faster and cheaper. Because the U. S. is jittery about its Alaskan defenses (Russian Siberia is only...