Word: asking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YEAR. THE MAJORITY OF LETTERS NOMINATING HIM HAVE BEEN WHOLLY CONDEMNATORY. IF HIS PICTURE APPEARS ON YOUR COVER ONLY AS TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR THE CONTROLLED PRESS OF FASCIST COUNTRIES AND THE UNINFORMED OF ALL NATIONS WILL HAIL THE SELECTION AS AN AWARD OF MERIT. WE ASK THAT YOU CONFIRM THE TRUST OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST DEMOCRACY BY REFRAINING FROM CONVEYING THIS TITLE AS AN HONOR UPON A MAN WHO HAS DOMINATED THIS YEAR'S HEADLINES WITH HIS CRIMES AGAINST CIVILIZATION...
...average of more than 6,000 people write to the Voice of Experience each day, ask for help and advice. They write to the station on which they hear him or to a Manhattan Post Office box address. The location of his home and his office he keeps secret. His passion for anonymity goes so deep that he claims that even members of his family heard the Voice on the air for years before they knew his identity. His business acquaintances call him the Voice. That is the way he signs most of the letters he writes, and his briefcase...
...small voice piped up from the ranks last week. At Sacramento, Calif., 27 A. F. of L. and six C. I. O. local unions got together in a United Labor Council. Purposes: to insure respect for each other's picket lines regardless of affiliation; to ask their national officers to heed Franklin Roosevelt's pleas for Labor peace...
...than if he were picking Miss America, David Lasser had his witnesses choose Mr. & Mrs. WPA Worker of 1938. As the No. 1 Missus of Relief, they named Mrs. Stanley Jorgensen of Provo, Utah. Provo merchants had chipped in $100 to pay her way to Washington so she could ask for more WPA money to go into storekeepers' tills. Mrs. Jorgensen's husband supports her and two children on $44 a month, of which he pays $15 for rent on a single room, $18 for groceries. A Mormon, Mrs. Jorgensen said her church's famed work...
Meanwhile, all "stateless" Ukrainians in Germany were asked to register at a recently opened Ukrainian "confidential office." The number of Ukrainian broadcasts from German stations increased and throughout Ukrainian districts appeared new radio sets ostensibly supplied by Nazi agents. Ukrainian deputies to the Polish Parliament dared to ask for "self-government" for their districts...