Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HAWAII, Governor Ingram Stainback set out to do what Harry Truman said he could not do for him: settle an ugly eleven-week-old strike of Harry Bridges' Communist-line longshoremen.* The governor said he would ask the territorial legislature for permission to take over the docks permanently. "Some people may consider this union-busting," said Stainback, "others may consider it free-enterprise-busting, but it certainly would be citizen-saving...
Last week without warning, almost casually, the council canceled the subsidies on cooking oil, soap, milk and beef for the capital. Porteños whispered that the President himself had appeared before the council to ask for the step. The rumor ran that soon all subsidies, even the whopping annual support for wheat and sugar, would be lifted...
Moviegoers often fret about Tarzan's morals, and write in to ask if he and Jane are married (they are not). Fans also want to know the origin of Tarzan's child (he was found in the jungle, of course), and how Tarzan and Jane happen to be living together in a tree house without benefit of clergy. Says Producer Lesser, loftily: "It has never been suggested that Tarzan and Jane share the same...
...Great Gatsby (Paramount] might have been a fine picture. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel had almost everything a moviemaker could ask for: a strong love story, natural dialogue, an emotional climate as supercharged with violence as a summer storm, and a sensitive perception of period and place. Unfortunately, the movie version misses many of its opportunities...
...reported that they did not think they could reach a verdict. Twice, Judge Kaufman sent them back to try again. Finally, 28 hours and 40 minutes after it had received the case, the jury announced a hopeless and final deadlock. One of Hiss's attorneys leaned over to ask a juror how they had balloted. The answer was a shock to him; eight to four for conviction...