Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...views, often and eloquently expressed, were well known in Washington. But for all MacArthur's reputation as a strategist, his pleas-considered political, and hence beyond his province-were largely ignored. In 1948 the Defense Department had answered with a flat "no" the general's request for more troops to buttress Japan, which MacArthur regarded as the only firm anchor of the U.S. position in Asia. Last January the State Department had overruled MacArthur's urgent proposal that Formosa be defended. He had warned Washington that Communist capture of Formosa would break the defense line Japan-Okinawa...
...North Carolina to visit a girl friend. Last week in Detroit, where he was living with a sister and working as a laborer for $1.80 an hour, he was surrounded by four FBI agents as he stepped off a bus. They had arrested him at Alabama's request; it is a federal offense for fugitives to cross state lines to avoid imprisonment...
...Means Today. Meeting in the gilded and brocaded halls of the Pitti Palace, delegates presented a total of 86 new proposals. Among them: a request to draw up a list of sources for an economic history from the 11th to the 16th Centuries, a suggestion that UNESCO collect material on teaching evolutionary biology...
...most militant crusader against the Teacher's Oath in the state was Kirtley Mather. Not until December 12, 1935, several months after the Teacher's Oath Bill had passed did he sign a pledge and then he did so only at the request of President Conant. Had Mather not signed and still remained on the Harvard faculty, the University would have been involved in considerable litigation with the state. Paul A. Dever, who was then attorney-general, had ruled that any educational institution which didn't comply 100 percent with the oath law would have its charter revoked. (Several...
...announcement came as the result of a letter received Monday from the Justice Department in Washington. Several weeks ago the City Council had ordered the Chief of Cambridge Police to procure a list of Communists in Cambridge from the Justice Department. Washington turned down the city's request for this list...