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...investigation began with the setting up of headquarters at the William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh. Presidents J. D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Horace W. Baker of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. called, to request that the Senators would make their tour without any escort from the United Mine Workers whose officials, insisted the operators, would be sure to distort conditions. Philip Murray, the Mine Workers' vice president, was more persuasive, however, and a union delegation accompanied the tourists, on the understanding that Mr. Murray was to be kept away from the operators' superintendents...
Together they drafted a telegram as timid as the position of Tcheng Loh is delicate. Transmitted through the League Secretariat, this message reached Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary in the following form: ". . . The Council of the League, having before it a request from the Czechoslovak, Jugoslav and Rumanian Governments and having learned from the press that the Hungarian Government is going to sell the objects to which the request refers, thinks it would be prudent to delay this project, the matter involved coming before the Council in a few days...
...Secularization of marriage, with divorce upon request...
Backstage, an official rushed by with the news that Commander Byrd had arrived and there was no committee on hand to meet him Consequently the reporter stepped into the breach, as a committee of one, and upon reaching Commander Byrd was confronted with the request for a pin. Confusion reigned until Abraham Lincoln, soon to appear with George Washington in a benefit tableau, extracted a pin from his costume and satisfied the need...
...collection, however, is the autographed manuscript of "The Charge of the Light Brigade," probably his best known poem. This was first published in the newspapers. The soldiers in Crimea, seeing the poem, sent a request to the government that copies of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" be sent to all of them in Crimea. The worn, crumpled copy in the exhibition belonged to a soldier...