Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Treasurer Joseph R. Nutt of the G. O. P. called at the White House to receive Calvin Coolidge's approval of the party's budget. He forgot to ask Calvin Coolidge for a contribution...
...country has a right to ask them before the election whether, if they hold it, they will put the Socialists in office. The Labor [Socialist] Party still is divided, undisciplined and weakly led, so that the strength of the extremists [communists] within their ranks makes them dangerous...
...Englishman come to make good in the Dominion, but of a U. S. business man, albeit he was less jovial, perhaps a little harder than most U. S. citizens. As suddenly as they had begun, the man's wanderings ceased. The police had some questions to ask him. The most important question was, "Are you Clinton S. Carnes?" When the man said he was Clinton S. Carnes, the police were proud of their perspicacity. Here was important fish for their creel...
Georges Clemenceau, spirited and robust, spent his 87th birthday frustrating eager newsmen. "Journalists now give their opinions to the public," he said, "rather than ask the public for theirs. I belong to the great public. Once I knew how to talk, now I have learned silence. Let me interpret my own silence...
...Dyke issued a smashing reply to Dr. Walker: "May a humble Presbyterian, who has himself held the honorable office of Moderator in that church be permitted to ask politely by what right or authority Dr. Walker assumes this 'Temporal Dominion' in the United States? ... I have not the pleasure of knowing Mr. Volstead personally, but I am unwilling to believe that he is wiser or better than the Lord Jesus Christ, who not only used wine but . . . made...