Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President fared little better than his agencies. His request for an extension of some war powers for "a national emergency that we do not now foresee" made G.O.P. hackles rise. What controls were needed, said Senator Taft acidly, would not be granted in generalized powers, but in individual specific bills...
JERUSALEM, February 10 A British military court sentenced three suspected members of lrgun Zvai Legion to the gallows today shortly after official Palestine Jewry formally rejected a British request to cooperate with the police and military in combatting terrorism...
When Theophilus sent Bishop Benjamin Basalyga of Pittsburgh, a group of several hundred White Russians in Japan, most of whom have recently taken out Soviet citizenship, requested Patriarch Alexei to supply a spiritual leader for the Japanese church. Alexei promptly raised the ante; he offered (through Soviet General Kuzma Derevyanko in Tokyo) to send in two bishops. Few Japanese converts to the Orthodox Church had supported the request to Alexei, and the Russian bishops were not allowed to enter...
Without waiting for the request to pick up a little red tape on the way, the War Department turned it down. Said War Secretary Patterson: ". . . any other decision would be inimical to the best interests of the service . . . officers are now being sent on foreign service where there is a shortage of second lieutenants." Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard would have to go on just being soldiers, like everyone else at West Point...
Editor Jerome Ellison (briefly managing editor of Collier's and Liberty) realistically guessed where part of the trouble lay: his name-in-lights stable "have to earn livings, and they've got to sell to other markets too." To his stockholder-contributors went an urgent "special request": "We need masterfully written short stories, and articles, that will make the nation stop to read. You can insure your investment by routing '47-ward the two finest pieces you produce in the next twelve months...