Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shovels Sirs: May I ask that your editorial department take the same care in checking the following statements that they might well have taken in checking the statement in your first footnote, third column, page 14, TIME, Sept...
...time Senator James W. Wadsworth, Sophie Irene Loeb and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, to ask presidential approval of the plan of the Child Welfare Committee of America to better the lot of 18,000 abandoned and mostly illegitimate children of U. S. fathers and Filipino mothers, together with uncountable thousands of all-native orphans. President Coolidge said he thought the Philippine Legislature could pass a bill similar to the "Mother's aid" bill passed by the Massachusetts Senate when he was a Massachusetts Senator...
...Boston Symphony, opened its fourth season under Serge Koussevitzky, gave two worthy catholic programs - Stravinsky, Debussy, Brahms, Berlioz, Bach-Schonberg, Richard Strauss, de Falla. "This year," read a foreword in the program book, "owing to increased expenses the deficit is likely to be $85,000, and we ask all those who are anxious to see these concerts continue to subscribe towards the deficit." Figures showed the operating expenses increased by $32,696; the gross income $717,886; the gross expenditure...
...until 4 p.m." Eric H. Palmer Jr. had been dropped from two schools, grown sickly. Eric H. Palmer has forbidden his son to operate his transmitting set; had even crippled the set - to no avail. Eric H. Palmer Jr. continued to tinker and pine. Eric H. Palmer had to ask the Federal Radio Commission to suspend Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s operating license for 90 days...
...week include: contestants in the International Oratorical Contest and a delegation of railroad ticket agents, to be introduced; onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio to report the progress of himself and colleagues on the U. S. prosecution of oil litigation (see p. 11) and to ask for $100,000 to meet expenses; Roy T. Davis, U. S. Minister to Costa Rica, to pay respects...