Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...them were dead, he had decided to make a "sanctifying payment of five lakhs" ($105,000) to a fund for refugees from Pakistan. "This charity will bring peace to the departed souls [of dead creditors]. If any living creditors want to serve on the [fund] committees, I may request the committees to consider cooperating with them...
...Defects. Stokes devotes 14 pages to last year's controversy between Cardinal Spellman and Mrs. Roosevelt. He says that the Cardinal's final statement limiting the Roman Catholic request to "auxiliary aids" for parochial schools, e.g., bus transportation, free lunches, medical care, was "of epoch-making importance as far as church-state relations in the United States are concerned. It was the first time that the hierarchy, represented by one of its most prominent members . . . recognized publicly that direct aid for the support of parochial schools was . . . unconstitutional...
Died. Bertha ("Chippie") Hill, 45, brass-voiced blues singer in the oldtime Bessie Smith tradition; after being hit by an automobile; in Harlem. Chippie would try any request from her stomping audiences except a hymn: "You can't play with God in a nightclub ... As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with...
...rules still contain a demand that a full membership list be available to the Dean's Office upon request, a clause which had been the target of protests by College groups of leftist tendencies and by the Young Republican Club...
...traffic will bear. For those of us who have given up a great deal in order to come to Harvard, such a coldly indifferent act on the part of the University provides slight basis for any affectionate regard toward it, now or in the future . . . Name withheld by request...