Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Asked Congress, in a special presidential message, to vote nearly $18 billion more "with the utmost speed" to carry on the fight in Korea and to prepare U.S. forces for possible action anywhere else in the world. The request was designed to raise the armed forces to 2,771,121 men by next June, including 1,264,900 in the Army which had only 593,000 men when the Korean war began. Since then 130,000 reserves have been called to active duty, 100,800 men have been drafted, 50,000 National Guardsmen have been federalized, about...
With a good deal more unanimity, Congress also got ready to pass the President's request for an additional $17.9 billion for arms. Congress, as it long had been, was ready to do whatever was necessary to give the U.S. the military sinews it needed...
...unprecedented diversity of method has appeared in this parietal campaign. House Committee chairman put in a request for midnight deadlines for women guests on their football weekends. A petition calling for midnight permission every Saturday night throughout the year was circulated, and attracted over 2,000 signatures. One House Committee proposed a midnight deadline for groups of three or more couples. And a Student Council committee meeting met with a delegation of Housemaster to discuss the possibility of a change...
...rooms until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays and until 9 on Sundays. There are no requirements concerning chaperones or signing in. As the rules put it: "We do not attempt to describe by means of rules what behavior should prevail when girls are present as guests. The only official request is that the students conduct themselves in a manner acceptable to other guests and to the other students in the dormitory...
...Middlesex County Grand Jury, upon the request of District Attorney George A. Thompson, yesterday indicted the Harvard Lampoon Corporation for "selling and distributing obscene pamphlets...