Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permit them "full participation in party affairs." He went even further. When a white man, Senatorial Candidate Alan Johnstone, rose to protest, the judge had him forcibly ejected. He told the crowd of Negroes who jammed his courtroom: "It is a disgrace when you have to come . . . and ask a judge to tell you how to be an American...
...Warsaw last week, a Polish woman stopped before a students' dormitory to ask what all the flags and crowds were about. A fierce young Greek confronted her. "What side are you on?" he demanded. "What do you mean?" she asked...
...important piece of business was cleared away. Earl Browder, their old chairman, heaved out in 1945 when he went on advocating cooperation with capitalism (when the wartime party line had been changed), abjectly pleaded for reinstatement as a party member. The 250 delegates snorted collectively: for Browder even to ask to be taken back was in itself a "form of anti-party activity." Perhaps deviationist Browder, who is still the Kremlin's publishing agent in the U.S., was also being held in reserve, in case Moscow's line should be changed again. In any event the comrades...
...point of separating church and state. Ben-Gurion and other leaders rarely turn up at synagogues. Jews are not supposed to travel in vehicles on the Sabbath but they do today in Israel. Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, a brisk, urbane statesman, did not even wait for a reporter to ask him about it. Said Shertok: "And if you're going to ask whether the trains and buses are going to run on the Sabbath, I can tell you right now-they...
...description of her ex-son-in-law . . . Today, Senator Brewster of Maine has his offices stacked high with 75,000 reprints of a speech largely taken from Cissie's diatribes against me, which he is mailing to constituents at the taxpayers' expense. People used to ask me why I didn't answer Cissie or sue her for libel. Well, she and I had been through a lot together and I concluded the public is the best judge of such things...