Word: request
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Student Council, together with the Student Defense League, has issued a request for student aid as well, on October 16, when the city will be groaning under the double rush of draft registration and final registration for voting. Such volunteers, who by law will receive no pay for their work, will serve as interpreters or clerks, or may be sworn in as registrars...
...Knudsen and his six fellow commissioners had to build a strange, specialized plane-ship-&-munitions economy inside and alongside a vast bread-&-butter economy, which had to go on working. The President had given the Commission no legal power to do anything. All they could do was advise, suggest, request-no more. They did not even have a boss. Franklin Roosevelt kept that post for himself...
...sleep there nightly on payment of the usual subway fee of three ha'pence (about 3?) last week began turning out their own typed news sheet, The Swiss Cottager. "There's too much litter at the all clear," said The Cottager. "Dustbins are provided! Please heed this request-our last and only territorial demand...
...Typical request is that of the 15 Germans in the Rhenish Mission (Reformed) near Canton: "We naturally only ask for our daily bread. So $20 would be enough for one person a month." Danish missionaries in Nigeria, where living is still cheaper, said they could keep going on $10 a month for married couples, $7.50 for single workers...
Maestro Stokowski brought home 300 records which he made of South American music, among them some tunes played by Indian witch doctors. At Stokowski's request, 150 Indians were taken to Rio de Janeiro by busses, from which they emerged mother-naked. Ensued a lively discussion about whether their instruments were clothing enough. The answer was no. So Youth Orchestra members rustled up some garments...