Word: request
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appreciate your honoring our request for an impartial write-up of Senator Blease of South Carolina (TIME, June...
Promptly President Hoover denied that he had made any such request to the Tariff Commission. Observers began to realize that the Tariff fight was passing into its bitterest stage...
Mayor Walker responded extemporaneously. For 40 minutes he talked of his boyhood in the New York slums, of city improvements he had started and hoped to finish, of necessary increases in the city budget to give the People better living conditions. To the committee's request he concluded: "This is the answer: Who could...
...dinner which the 99 attended in Moscow was tendered them by the Soviet Department for Western Trade. Pursuant to a Soviet request "to kindly leave behind furbelows, top hats, canes and other vanities that might strike a bourgeois note in the communist paradise," the 99 tourists attended in sack suits, travelling dresses. When the star-spangled strains had subsided, Comrade Poliayukov, president of the Russian-American Trading Corporation, rose beaming at the head of the speaker's table and boomed: "Welcome to Soviet Russia. While you are here you are invited to partake of as much vodka and caviar...
...that I should accede to the request of the Council of Advice and resign...