Word: asks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Governor Reed took a personal dig at Chairman Legge as onetime head of International Harvester Co. when he declared: "Is it fair, is it sound public policy to ask the wheat farmer to leave his land idle to permit an expansion of the agricultural implement trade in foreign countries so as to enable those countries to better compete with the American wheat farmer?" On the platform beside him Chairman Legge clamped his cigar, made no answer. When his turn to speak came he explained that the Farm Board had already sunk in wheat twice the crop's proportionate share...
...Since you say you are through and the best you can do is to advise farmers of Kansas to 'sit tight,' we ask you to resign...
...Chairman Huston had no intention of going. He grew obstinate and defiant, insisted he would never "quit under fire." He proceeded to make long range plans for the fall campaign. President Hoover fortnight ago told him to his face that party sentiment demanded his retirement, but hesitated to ask for his resignation, lest Mr. Huston stubbornly refuse to give it and force a public issue with the White House...
...Europeans ask me how it happens that Americans torture their Negroes," said he to Paris reporters. "But in all my time there I have never witnessed any of these tortures...
...Archbishop intimated that when his priests have completed their report he may take drastic action about cocktails. "But may I ask Your Eminence," said a respectful reporter, "what is intended to be done about French women's dress...