Word: asking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ask of you is: don't underestimate your neighbors to the North. We are fine people. Visit our great country and you will soon agree with...
COMMENTING ON YOUR UNJUST, GOOFIEST, UNGODLIEST ARTICLE I EVER READ . . . CRITICIZING OUR BELOVED GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN, MAY I SUGGEST YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF IN A LARGE CLEAR MIRROR AND ASK THE QUESTION, WHO AM I WHO DARES TO OPENLY RIDICULE A GODFEARING, PRAYING MAN ? ONE OF YOUR SUBSCRIBERS...
Relief was another subject calling for action before June 30, when WPA's appropriations would run out. Last fortnight the House, with fair speed, passed a measure granting as much money ($1,735,000,000) as Franklin Roosevelt asked for but switching $125,000,000 from WPA's share to PWA, for continuance of heavy construction projects (TIME, June 26). The measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah...
...week in Cardiff, Wales, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told 10,000 followers that he was no seer, that if they wanted to know what the future had in store for Europe they might as well go to Old Moore, the astrologer-author of a popular British almanac, as to ask the Head of the British Government. Others with far less opportunity for knowing what was going on in Europe were not so modest...
Further information for Army freshmen: "A young British officer knows all his men by sight and name and takes a personal interest in each. If a man is in any private trouble of his own, he has merely to ask for an interview with his officer (through the medium of a Serjeant or other non-commissioned officer) and it will be granted at once. Finally, in action, his officer never asks a soldier to go anywhere he himself is not prepared to lead the way. Such traditions as these are the pride of the British Army, and the envy...