Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Wrote Denham bluntly: ". . . You have now seen fit to request my resignation forthwith. In obedience to your wishes I feel I must comply." In a stiff little note of reply, the President explained that he saw no prospect of restoring a "harmonious relationship" between Counsel Denham and the board. Harry Truman accepted the resignation as of the close of the following business...
...Jolson was still going places. First he was fined $19 for speeding and jumping a traffic light. A few days later, he announced that Defense Secretary Louis Johnson had given him the green light on his request to sing (at about $3 a day) for the boys in Korea...
...President's request (he thought the military already had enough to do), House and Senate committees put off Universal Military Training legislation until next year...
Better Than No Church. The Hungarian government announced last week that the Hungarian Bench of Bishops had agreed 1) to "acknowledge and support" the Communist constitution; 2) to take steps against priests who direct their activities against "the legal order"; 3) to request Roman Catholics to "take part in the great work" of Red Hungary; 4) to support the phony peace petition which the Communists are circulating the world over. In exchange, the Hungarian state promised to support the church financially for the next 18 years, to guarantee "complete freedom of religion," and to return to the church eight parochial...
...Faces. The most obvious cause of the price jumps was a new tax law, more than 100 pages long, handed to Congress late one afternoon with a request that House and Senate rush it right through. Without discussion or debate, the Peronista steam roller obliged. The law increased tax rates on personal incomes, excess profits, capital gains, inheritances, gifts and sales, and slapped on stiff hikes in excise and customs duties. At the same time, the government removed price controls from many commodities...