Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officially claimed to have nothing to do with the nationwide campaign sweeping British golf clubs last week to have all golfers carry rifles in their bags, shoot Nazi parachuteers on sight. "Many of our readers, particularly those living in the shires," said the London Times, "have already written to ask what is the correct method of dealing with these missionaries of Hitlerism dropping from the sky. . . . It would not be correct for country gentlemen to carry their guns with them on their walks and take flying or running shots as opportunity is offered. . . . Such action would put them into...
Stern Home Secretary Sir John Anderson announced that seven years of penal servitude or a fine of $1,750 or both is now the penalty for any Briton caught "systematically" fomenting opposition to the war, but still permitted were mere "expressions of opinion." This week Sir John will ask the House of Commons to enact "A Bill To Make Further Provision and Punishment For Treachery," imposing death as the penalty for serious cases of spying. Detectives this week were busy trying to catch up with quislings who plastered northeast London with stickers urging everyone to listen to "the new British...
...aversion to running his own show. As soon as he had made up his Cabinet he appeared before the House and, mincing no words, told it what was in store for Britain: "If you ask what is our policy, it is to wage war by sea, land and air with all our might," said Winston Churchill. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." The House gave him a 381-to-0 vote of confidence and Neville Chamberlain smiled a tight-lipped smile...
...letter instructing his aides how to act while on duty, Hollister says, "If you see any other marshals ask them what the hell this is all about, and they won't know either...
Author, president and top dog of Railway Extension is a husky, happy-go-lucky, talkative automobile dealer named Ed O'Shea. Weary of turning away potential customers who came to his Lincoln, Neb. agency from the next-door bus depot and the nearby railroad station to ask whether they could rent a car for a few hours, Dealer O'Shea worked out Railway Extension, took it to the railroads. At present his agency operates its own cars (500) in some 35 cities, has contracts with local drive-yourself agencies in the others...