Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...time of hysteria, a time when few men dared risk their political careers. The President asked for a better law; his veto message was a calm explanation of what was actually needed. During this next Congress, when there are no elections iminent, Democrats will probably follow his request on such legislation. But the Republicans surely will...
...atmosphere of correctness and studied pleasantry went on during a luncheon at the Forest Hills home of U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie. Even the orchestra stayed neutral. It played both The Sidewalks of New York and the Red army's march Meadowlands, and, at the President's request, Edvard Grieg's I Love You. But Harry Truman extricated himself as soon as possible. He headed straight for the nearest military hospital -in this case St. Albans Naval Hospital-to visit men wounded in Korea...
...Religious Affairs answered by charging that the bishops had violated Article III of the church-state agreement. In Article III the bishops had agreed to seek Vatican recognition of Poland's new western frontier on the Oder-Niesse Line. The bishops had not been purposeful in pressing this request on Rome, and Rome had ignored...
...Saints' Day, when the actual definition of the dogma was scheduled to take place in an elaborate ceremony. From a throne set up before the central gate to St. Peter's, above a colorful sea of bishops' miters and upturned faces, the Pope receives the formal request of the College of Cardinals that the dogma be proclaimed. After a prayer, the Pope reads the bull† of proclamation: ". . . The presence of Mary in soul and body in Heaven is a God-revealed truth . . . Hence if anyone deliberately presumes to think otherwise, let him know that...
Considering a request by Ivy Films to have women allowed in the Lamont Ferum Room at its film showings, the council passed a resolution favoring the presence of women in the Forum Room "under certain controlled conditions." A committee of one was appointed to work out the technicalities of this proposal with Dean Watson and library officials...