Word: requested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could either man give any clue to the identify of the man who had been watching Harvard football for 22 years. He will probably remain unknown, too, because Hobbs refused to give his name upon the CRIMSON'S request...
...after, a letter came to Dr. Nourse from the White House. Wrote Harry Truman: "I have been increasingly aware of your desire to retire ... I must assent to your request to be relieved of your duties...
...consistent leadership of its own. A Republican-Dixiecrat coalition filibustered and voted to death his civil-rights program. A wider coalition of Democrats and Republicans crushingly repudiated another major Truman election promise: repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The Senate rejected three of his personal appointees. Congress ignored his request for compulsory health insurance, refused to try the Brannan plan even as an experiment...
...refusals, Congress often showed better sense than Harry Truman in his requests, and sometimes it saved him later embarrassment. When he asked for an anti-inflation program (including wage & price controls, Government authority to build steel plants) at a time when deflation was obviously in progress, Congress brusquely threw it overboard, lock, stock & barrel. His demand for $4 billion in new taxes was similarly ignored; so was his request for $800 million for universal military training...
Donald Spencer '26, elected president that year, has led the organization ever since. According to present methods, candidates request endorsement from the Association, and go before a reviewing board. This panel, composed of members of the Association's board of directors, holds open sessions at which it questions the hopeful and studies their past records in office, education, and experience. It then picks the top men to campaign under its endorsement for positions on School Committee and Council...