Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Name omitted by request] Hong Kong...
...Vice-Presidential nomi nation, go down ignominiously with 16 others of the faithful who were sacrificed to Henry Wallace (see p. 12). Disillusioned Mr. Johnson crawled back to Washington. There he wrote a letter to "My Dear Mr. President," black with reminders that at the President's request he had passed up his last chance to resign with dignity when Henry Stimson was appointed; that "my Commander in Chief and longtime friend" now left no alternative but resignation. Louis Johnson sighed that he would go back to his law practice (in Clarksburg, W. Va.), signed himself "obediently yours," hopped...
...This is an urgent request. It is important that the National Theatre Conference have available without delay certain facts to submit to the national government. Please send to this office the names of those of your recent graduates who are qualified to direct plays and supervise dramatics in military training camps...
Among the first to respond to the Conference's request were the Baylor students in the Southwest Summer Theatre, who signed up in a body for war work last fortnight. Last week into the Conference's offices at Western Reserve University in Cleveland had come responses from 169 other colleges submitting the names of 1,028 men and women...
...Magic Music's headquarters in the Penobscot Building, studio operators, working six-hour tricks with telephone-girl's headsets, paraded back & forth before long rows of phonograph turntables, each supplying a different bar or nightclub. As patrons dropped their nickels into the slot and phoned their requests, the operators consulted their elaborately cross-indexed files, picked the disc from among 8,000 titles, played it back to the club the request came from. To music-hungry Detroiters, the climax of the evening came when they discovered they could have their requests played not only in their...