Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereupon, with General Andrews and Secretary Mellon agreeing, the Treasury Department announced that it would ask Congress to provide for the organization of a private corporation under Federal control to buy all medicinal spirits now in warehouses and distilleries and to manufacture additional necessary liquors. The Government would name the original Board of Directors and would audit the books to assure the sick public of reasonably priced whiskey. It will require $150,000,000 to finance such a corporation. If the Government cannot find proper private capital, it will ask Congress for an appropriation...
...Please ask your young collaborators henceforth to choose their code names from Greco-Roman mythology rather than from among their petites filles...
...they are unwilling to concur in the conditions adopted by the resolution of the Senate. While no final decision can be made by our Government until final answers are received, the situation has been sufficiently developed so that I feel warranted in saying that I do not intend to ask the Senate to modify its position. I do not believe the Senate would take favorable action on any such proposal, and unless the requirements of the Senate resolution are met by the other interested nations I can see no prospect of this country adhering to the Court...
...this none too lucid metaphor the Premier referred with intentional vagueness to one of the chief problems of the Imperial Conference: how to grant the Dominions the freedom they ask yet retain them within the Commonwealth. Last week a notable pioneering step was taken when, with the consent of the Imperial Conference, the Canadian Government appointed the Hon. Vincent Massey to be its Minister Plenipotentiary Extraordinary...
...fetched $1,025, was auctioned by Major Hon. John Jacob Astor, Chairman of the London Times Publishing Company; and William Harrison, who has been buying up London illustrated newspapers, offered him $25,000,000, 'if you are prepared to include the Times.' Sir Harry Lauder cabled to ask whether medals went with...