Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 70% of Michigan's players (including Chappuis) are ex-G.I.s and get their tuition free from the Government. Some no doubt get side help from alumni. Says Bob Chappuis: "Some boys back home ask me how much I'm being paid. When I say 'Nothing' they think I'm lying...
...hail-fellow Tom Harmon, he is incapable of calling everybody on campus by his first name. His snaggleteeth and sharp features earned him the nickname "Bird Face" when he was a kid. An easy way to make him blush (as his teammates do when things get dull) is to ask him for his autograph...
...spite of the financial situation, the Band management will not ask the University completely to subsidize their activities, figuring that a maintenance fund such as many college musical outfits receive would entail a certain amount of faculty control and limitation...
National: Truman to Ask for Three Million for Europe...
President Truman's council of economic advisers announced yesterday that they will probably ask Congress to give outright more than $3,000,000 of aid to Western Europe under the Marshall Plan next year. The exact amount to be proposed for Congressional authorization during 1948 is still being worked out but insiders estimate it at six to seven million dollars...