Word: request
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...Department of Justice has asked Congress to amend the Communications Act in order to permit tapping of telephones in kidnapping and security cases, under authorization of the Attorney General. Congress has not granted the request. Unless and until it does, wire-tapping cannot legally be used as an aid to law enforcement. We consider it imperative at this time for Congress to inquire searchingly into the extent to which the law has been violated and the courts of the United States hoodwinked by a Federal agency. And we think the law should be made so clear that even Attorneys General...
When asked if WHRB might be granted the right to broadcast until the hearings which are tentatively scheduled for April, Frerette replied that "in the absence of any request we cannot waive regulations...
Deane said last night that he had sent just such a request for an extension to the FCC on Sunday. "This letter was sent registered air mail and the FCC has not yet replied," he added...
That summer the Scituate Yacht Club hired Grover as swimming instructor and "deckhand." In the course of turning out the clubhouse lights one night, Charlie ignored a peremptory request by a solitary individual he had never seen before that the lights be left on. The individual turned out to be an ex-commodore and person of some standing in the club...
...with whom C.D.C. would spend the $5,000,000 and 2) what were the Colonial projects on which it would use the machinery. Though such full disclosure is a standard requirement for World Bank loans, C.D.C. Chairman Lord Trefgarne thought the requirement "too onerous," forthwith canceled the request for the loan. Said World Bank Chairman Eugene Black: "I think it is perfectly reasonable to request that, when we lend money to buy machinery, we get to see what they are going to do with...