Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RECIPROCAL TRADE: Dulles and Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said the Administration will ask a five-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act with its authorization for the President to cut tariffs by as much as 5% a year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, recalling that the Administration's 1955 request for a three-year extension had barely squeezed through the House, warned that foreign trade next year will require a herculean Administration effort...
...avoid alarming the country and the world in the absence of confirmed findings. White House Staff Secretary Andrew Goodpaster called Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, who was in Paris laying the groundwork for the President's scheduled visit to the NATO Council meeting Dec. 16, to ask him to come back to Washington. When word of the President's illness reached him in a Paris hotel lobby, Jim Hagerty wept...
WASHINGTON POST AND TIMES HERALD: THE President could safely and advantageously ask Mr. Nixon to serve as acting President during the period while he is incapacitated. It would permit the business of the Government to move forward expeditiously and avoid the confusion and stagnation that has occurred during some presidential illnesses of the past. Once it were demonstrated that authority could be shifted to the Vice President on an acting basis and returned to the President without a hitch, future vice presidential candidates would then likely be chosen for their compatibility with the presidential candidate and not merely to lend...
...inflation, these rents may not seem astronomical; but the average student in GSAS, for example, has an extremely limited income. The frequent "no children" restriction adds to the graduate student's dilemma. Landlords are not entirely to blame here; an over-whelming percentage of them ask if the child is of school age. If he is not, they assert, complaints are received from other tenants on the grounds that they are prevented from studying...
Anticipate that each Kennedy will ask you what you think of another Kennedy's a) dress, b) hairdo, c) backhand, d) latest public achievement. Be sure to answer "terrific" This should get you through dinner. Now for the football field. It's "touch," but it's murder. If you don't want to play, don't come. If you do come, play, or you'll be fed in the kitchen and nobody will speak to you. Don't let the girls fool you. Even pregnant, they can make you look silly. Above...