Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Arizona-born Lew Douglas had brought more than the usual diplomatic attributes to his job. When he took the post 3½-years ago at the prayerful request of George Marshall, he already had behind him a solid and varied career. He had been a Congressman, an industrialist, Director of the Budget (he quit because he disagreed with Roosevelt's ideas of New Dealing spending), the head of McGill University, Lend-Lease expediter, war shipping administrator and the president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. He arrived in London at a time when the British loan...
...Although Party Boss Eugene Dennis was already in jail for contempt of Congress, the other ten Reds convicted in Judge Medina's court of violating the Smith Act have been free on appeal bail for almost a year. Last week Supreme Court Justice Jackson turned down a Government request that the ten be jailed immediately as dangerous to the public welfare...
...Fascism." Scelba took three days to soothe Saragat. Then Randolfo Pacciardi, Italy's able Defense Minister, made difficulties: he wanted Italy's regular armed forces strengthened before any volunteer forces were launched. Scelba brought him around by promising to support the armed forces' request for additional funds...
...late Sherwood (Winesburg, Ohio) Anderson was a hard man to tap for a free book, according to the current Saturday Review of Literature. Answering the Chicago Historical Society's request for a copy of his novel Marching Men, Rebel Anderson wrote, in 1917: ". . . I am not a popular writer, at least the royalty checks from my publishers do not indicate that I am. My books are seriously discussed by our American deep-sea thinkers but they are not bought by the man in the street . . . Make the publishers give you one if you can. Don't tackle...
Last week, amid clouds of red smoke, Mitchell's shots were still echoing on the Danube. According to the Budapest trade union daily Nepszava, "Composer" Howard Mitchell had provided "rhapsodic variations" for 16 cannon and orchestra at the urgent request of "Minister of War" Louis Johnson, who wanted some "martial and blood-stirring" music to honor U.S. armed forces...