Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft battled the invader with grim and obstinate resolution. Taft workers distributed his literature outside Stassen rallies. They tracked the Minnesotan everywhere, took down his every word and stood up in his meetings to ask questions which had obviously sprung from Taft's precise legal mind...
...sunny sidewalk outside a bookstore on Hollywood's North Vermont Avenue, a legless pencil peddler had set up his pitch. A pretty young woman knelt down beside him and began to ask him questions. Did he think Communists should be barred from jobs in vital U.S. industries? In a muddy Italian accent the peddler replied that he knew nothing about Communists, but he did know that he was paying too much for his $40-a-month room. Did he know who John L. Lewis was? That was easier. "Eez a boxer. A fighter...
Communist Labor Boss Giuseppe di Vittorio publicly admitted his distress that Italian Reds had been obliged to attack the Marshall Plan. He said he would ask the Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions to let workers in each country decide for themselves what stand to take on U.S. aid. "When someone wants to help you," he said, "it is ridiculous to slap him in the face...
...ask Coach Lloyd Harper to describe his 1948 Jayvee baseball team, he'll say, "More and better--more men to work with this year than last and, as a result, a better squad." And the records support Harper's statements, for his charges have bounced back from an opening day tie with the Crimson Freshmen and racked up three straight wins, 4-1 over Tufts, 11-10 over Nichols Junior, and 5-0 over Suffolk, a team that trimmed the Varsity in a practice game earlier this year...
Perhaps fortunately, neither the Dean's Office nor the Committee on Student Activities has any money to give. We could ask the Corporation, through the Provost, to provide the money if we believed it desirable. But the Corporation has no money for such purposes either. At least it has no money given for this special purpose and it could provide subsidies only by taking money away from other things for which it is now spent, such as faculty salaries or scholarships or medical research...