Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister, appealed to Dominions Secretary Anthony Eden for clemency, spent 20 minutes trying to persuade Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to stay the sentence. Mrs. Tom Clarke, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, whose husband was killed by the British in 1916, telegraphed Mayor Joseph Holt of Coventry to ask that he appeal for a reprieve. Mayor Holt replied: "Am sure you will agree that the Coventry crime was dreadful in its deliberation and consequences to innocent people." Eire labor unions threatened strikes as a "mark of humiliation...
...Christopher, who have included arti sans of all kinds, built most of the buildings on the hill. St. Christopher's Inn, housing 200 men, has become too small, is to have a five-story addition. Last year the friars handed out 175,000 meals. No questions are asked of any Brother Chris topher except his name and the name of his next of kin. The friars, supported by outside donations, give their lodgers 10? worth of tobacco or candy a day, ask those who stay more than a day to work. Most stay about six weeks; one Brother Christopher...
Finland, like the Scandinavian nations, is mostly Lutheran. Lately Archbishop Erkki Kaila, head of beleaguered Finland's National Church, sent a stout S O S to Christendom: "In the name of the Finnish Christendom, I ... dare to turn to you to ask for spiritual and material support for my people and its Church now exposed to persecution. . . . We have full confidence that the Christian Churches will not leave us to fight out this struggle alone. God have mercy...
...Wilmington, Del., one day last week, went a handful of the 10,000-odd stockholders of Aviation and Transportation Corp. Gathered in its boardroom in the Corporation Guarantee & Trust Co., they helped elect three new directors (one of them bristle-maned ex-Champ Gene Tunney), asked a few questions, went their ways. Question none of them thought to ask was one that has been kicked around in the flying business like a sandlot soccer ball : what is ATCO going to do about simplifying its corporate structure...
...comfort the home front, but his main theme was to reassure the neutrals suffering from the British blockade. "We do not for one moment question the rights of neutrals to decide whether they shall come into the conflict or stay out of it," he said. "But we do ask them, whether they be small or weak or whether they are great and powerful, to consider that though, in the exercise of our undisputed belligerent rights, we may have taken action which causes them inconvenience or even loss, at any rate we have never sunk a neutral ship and we have...