Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listened to Herbert Hoover when he insisted that boards, councils, conferences would not do the job-one man had to have the power. From the White House came the answer. Big Bill Knudsen, bowing to the President with Old-World courtesy, straightened up to ask bluntly: "Who's boss?" "I am," said Franklin Roosevelt...
Amid these plans there was perhaps one big thing that he overlooked. He apparently thought it superfluous to ask the people to cooperate, to invite them formally to participate in a national effort for preparedness, an effort for which they were obviously eager. In his own immense self-confidence he took the job on his own shoulders and in effect said...
...anyone should ask why Britain is so badly prepared for this war or why America's defenses were found to be in such shocking condition in the May investigations, this attitude toward armaments is a substantial answer. The failure to build up her armaments has not saved England from a war, and may cost her one. Are we in America to let that lesson go unlearned? John F. Kennedy...
...principal aims of the committee are to speed up our manufacture of airplanes for shipment to the Allies; to ask Washington authorities to give military secrets to the Allies; to enable volunteers in this country to enter the war by the removal of legal restrictions; and to make credit available to the Allies by repeal of the Johnson...
...trinkets sent her anonymously by Diamond Jim Brady fail to dent her indomitable domesticity. When Husband No. 1 (Don Ameche) dies of overwork writing an operetta for her, Singer Russell marries Henry Fonda. He has been waiting in the wings all the while, never gets up courage to ask until the end of the picture. In between are the awkward love makings of hippopotamic Diamond Jim Brady (Edward Arnold), who walks through the part, laughing grossly from time to time in order (cinemaddicts are told) to conceal his broken heart...