Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...licenses 3.2 beer, which is dispensed in the subterranean cafeteria of the domeless State House. But "Big Red" mortally hates liquor, fires out of hand employes who drink on duty. If you were to order beer in the State House cafeteria this week, chances are the waitress would ask guardedly: "Do you want it in a paper cup?" If you were a State employe, you'd say "Yes." She would keep the bottle out of sight and you'd pick up some mints...
...stake his campaign on the proposition that the New Deal should be pretty generally liquidated, that: "The nation cannot live half collectivist and half free." So said he this week at a monster testimonial dinner in Rochester's Powers Hotel, where his candidacy was formally announced. "I ask by means of this letter to be counted in," wrote upstate New York's potent Congressman James W. Wadsworth (see p. 18), whom Publisher Gannett helped turn out of the U. S. Senate in 1926. An interested if distant observer in Washington was Frank Gannett's friend William Edgar...
...more piping times, Grace Line might have chosen for its radio debut travel-folder travelogues and bump Carib rhythms. But for 1940 audiences, it picked CBS News Analyst Elmer Davis for three 15-minute chats each week on the news of the day. Grace Line did not ask its broadcaster to pretend that there is no war at sea. In his broadcasts last week Davis reported a couple of sinkings, all the home-water problems involved in the Navy's proposed new five-year ship building program (see p. 77). These mat ters served more clearly to point...
City Councilman Michael A. Sullivan last night refused to say whether he would ask Police Chief Timothy Leahy to ban copies of the new issue of the Harvard Lampoon, which "exposes" him as the "brains" of American Communism...
...applied for and been refused $15 a week unemployment compensation. Said Senator Eroe, appealing to a referee: "I need the money. ... I'm 51, married and have three children. Just because I'm a State Senator, I don't see why I shouldn't ask for compensation when I lose my job. I thought that's what the law was for when I voted...