Word: asking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month, noting the fact that he had served longer than anyone else in California for such an offense, the parole board paroled him. But public protest induced Governor Culbert Olson to ask the board to rescind the action...
...Income taxes were up 50%, the tax on tobacco up 20%, the beer tax up 14%. It was against the law to ask for a raise in salary or to demand extra pay for overtime. Every able-bodied resident of a German city was required to help pile up sandbags and to assist in building air-raid cellars...
...Ascot and Epsom and wandering Britons are homesick. April, too, is the month when His Majesty's Government gives a significant demonstration of its democratic character: in April the Chancellor of the Exchequer appears before a crowded House of Commons to "open" the budget, i. e., to ask the people's representatives to vote the taxes which the people will have to pay. Last April Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon appeared before the Commons with the highest peacetime budget in Britain's history -$6,610,000,000 (estimated at $5 to the pound), nearly half...
...described itself as laying "a foundation for progressing development of friendly relations between [the German & Russian] peoples." In outward token of chumminess, Herr von Ribbentrop, whose German aides on the occasion of his first visit said they were sure his Russian hosts were too tactful to ask him to meet a Jew, banqueted in the Kremlin cheek by jowl with two Jewish Soviet Cabinet Commissars...
...flag of truce were received by German General Johannes Blaskowitz in his railway staff car in a scene reminiscent of the signing of World War I's armistice in the car of Generalissimo Ferdinand Foch. General Rommel, commanding the defense of Warsaw, had instructed his emissaries to ask only a brief truce for the evacuation of civilians and the wounded. After this he proposed to fight on, but General Blaskowitz refused to grant such a truce, obtained the unconditional surrender of Warsaw and demanded that General Rommel write an order to the besieged fortress of Modlin, about 20 miles...