Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...land. Last week kilted pipers led Scotsmen and Englishmen toward a new battlefield. From Hong Kong 1,500 men of the ist Battalion of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the ist Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment boarded a British carrier for Korea in answer to General MacArthur's request for immediate ground reinforcements for his forces in Korea (TIME...
Plans have not yet been formulated here to meet this request...
...House of Representatives twice this summer rejected President Truman's request for a five-year $250,000,000 program of Federal aid to medical education, and killed all hope for such a bill this session...
...which included three years as Ike Eisenhower's chief of staff in Europe and three postwar years as U.S. Ambassador to Russia, and he was anxious to retire to private life. When asked flatly to take the job, however, after his health had improved, Soldier Smith took the request as an order...
Last week Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson renewed Harry Truman's oft-made request for universal military training for all boys between 17 and 20 years old. Politically, U.M.T. had suddenly acquired a lot of congressional support as a fine-looking gesture of preparedness, which, incidentally, had long been demanded by veterans' outfits whose members will go to the polls in November. But militarily, events had taken from U.M.T. whatever value it might once have had. The Administration was asking for it without really wanting...