Word: asks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...under the Young Plan because of the increasing price of gold. * Said Tycoon Young, giving a discreet, humorous, personal twist to the awful and stupendous problem which the Young Plan was devised to solve: "It is quite natural in times of depreciated commodity and security prices that debtors should ask for a readjustment of their debts. I would be glad to do so myself. Unfortunately, it takes twice as many securities to pay my debts as it did when I incurred them. I could make a very good moral argument, if anyone would listen to me, that my debts should...
...Lang then told reporters that Sir Philip had promised him some time ago, "man to man," that he would not balk at appointing the necessary Laborites to abolish the Upper House. Sir Philip neither confirmed nor denied this promise, continued to balk. Then Mr. Lang threatened to ask George V to recall Sir Philip Game...
...copilot, resigned. He had been loaned for the flight by Dornier Corp. of America, subsidiary of General Aviation Corp. (dominated by General Motors), which was interested in no South American flight. Dr. Claude Dornier left the craft in La Coruna, Spain and hurried to Berlin, supposedly to ask the transportation ministry to back him in the new venture. Even before he arrived, Air Director Ernst Brandenburg made known that the answer would be: "No funds available." Definite information was scanty...
Every day at 11:45 am. the office force at the headquarters of the World's Sunday School Association in Manhattan assembles for a brief prayer, "to thank our Heavenly Father for His bounties and to ask His blessing upon the Sunday School work in all the world." Last week their chorus surged louder, augmented by the managers of the North American Board, who had assembled for their semi-annual meeting. The managers praised God for the fact that, after exactly 150 years of Sunday School activity,* 33,751,623 scholars were attending 320,620 evangelical Sunday Schools...
...reporter need ask M. Morand what he thinks of Manhattan's skyline: it is all down here in ecstatic black & white. Aside from his few omissions, his book would make a fairly good, nearly up-to-the-minute guide from Battery to Bronx. One of the omissions: speakeasies. Natu rally M. Morand is too polite to mention them by name, but he is not too polite to damn them generically. Says he : "I know nothing so depressing. . . . If only one could drink water there!" Of Manhattan's big cinemas, he thinks the Paramount "a blend of St. Peter...