Word: request
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...been coming for months, President Nixon waited until less than two days before the deadline to take the only official action left open to him: he placed the problem before Congress, which was racing to wrap up last-minute business before adjourning. To the Democrats, the President's request for a simple 45-day no-strike law smacked too much of management bias. They immediately set about weighting the measure in favor of labor. "If we take away the right of these men to strike ... we at least ought to give them the cost of living pay raise," argued...
Pajama Game. Within 36 hours of Nixon's request, both houses had zipped through measures containing wage boosts. But even as the legislators hurriedly held a hectic House-Senate conference on Capitol Hill to patch up differences in the bills passed by each house, early-bird pickets were appearing only a few blocks away at Washington's Union Station, the final House vote interrupted an impassioned if irrelevant time-filling defense of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by Lawrence Hogan, a Maryland Republican. The act was not signed by the President until two hours after...
...casinos in order to dodge taxes. Last summer, state officials looking into the accounts of the Hughes-owned Sands Hotel turned up $186,000 in "markers," some of which were lOUs signed with fictitious names. Hughes' managers wanted to write off the $186,000 as bad debts, a request that the state officials bluntly refused. Mob-connected men settled down comfortably in the Hughes organization. One of them: John Roselli, who was imprisoned in the '40s for shaking down Hollywood movie producers and later was convicted of conspiring to fleece wealthy card players in rigged gin-rummy games...
Last Tuesday 20 out of the 40 first-year women students marched to Bok's office to request a special class section next semester on laws concerning women ??n such areas a property rights, contracts, contraception and abortion...
Referring to the general financial squeeze, Hoy said, "Obviously, this is a difficult time to make this sort of request." He emphasized, however, that "the money PBH wants is a pathetic, trivial sum in relation to the whole Faculty budget...