Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator McMaster is a farmer's friend. He sits among the Republicans in the Senate but he warned the Republicans before Christmas that he would ask them to talk tariff reduction. He carried out his threat last week, demanding tariff benefits for farmer, denouncing as "sophistry." "sham," "fraud" all arguments to the effect that farmers are adequately benefited by current tariff schedules...
...plot is simple. Louise, the daughter of honest and conservative working people, herself employed in a dress-maker's-shop, has fallen in love with Julien a poet and "pillar of a cabaret" as Louise's mother succintly describes him. Julien has written frankly to the parents to ask for Louise's hand in marriage. The poet's careless life and invisible income do not prepossess the somewhat strait-laced parents in his favor, and they refuse his offer. Louise promises to clope with her lover if the opposition continues. After a fantastic picture of Montmartre at night in which...
Colonel W. S. Brown of the United States Army will be one of the speakers at the dinner. It is understood that the Association, realizing the growing importance of government support in college polo, will ask him to point out value of the game as an undergraduate sport when played under the auspices...
...done, officials of the Exchange made an announcement bare and ominous ?the amount of money loaned to brokers had risen to $4,432,907,321, a sum so vast that brokers slept uneasily, fearing that money vendors might suddenly demand repayment of loans or blandly ask for higher interest payments...
After the debate the Harvard orators volunteered to answer any questions that the audience might wish to ask about the presidential qualifications of Governor Al Smith. A great many questions were asked by men and women alike and this proved the most interesting part of the debate. This innovation in debating was so successfully carried out that Coach E. M. Rowe II, states that it will be continued in the coming debates...