Word: request
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also made a quick trip to the United States Military Academy at West Point. On arrival he was told that century-old tradition permitted him, as a head of state, to make and receive one request during his visit. He asked a pardon for all cadets undergoing punishment for breaches of discipline, and some 80 promptly had their privileges restored. At Hyde Park, where he had Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he spied a handsome Persian rug which he had presented to F.D.R. six years ago. Beaming, he got down on his knees, fingered it, and made...
During the past three years Harvard undergraduates have sent food, books, and clothing to students abroad. However, this year, by special WSSF request all funds gained in the current drive will go to aid the Universities of Pakistan, and Bombay...
...September, after he had belabored the U.S. and Britain for trying to start an atomic war. It proposed: 1) that the assembly condemn "preparations for war" being made by the two western nations; 2) that the assembly outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon; and 3) that the assembly request the Big Five (U. S., Britain, France, China, and Russia) to make a new non-aggression pact...
Dowd said he expected the HLU membership meeting this Thursday to present a formal request to the Council. If the Council agrees with the anti-discrimination clause, it will be written into Haughteling's recommendations before they are submitted for University approval...
...plays the expected ones too, but only on request or by whim. "Peg O' My Heart" got a scornful but amazingly inventive treatment the night I last heard Sutton, while a private joke with clarinetist peanuts Hucko produced a "Sugar Blues" that laughed at Duchin and Peewee Hunt but wound up with three choruses that were all Sutton, joke or no joke...