Word: request
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trusting that this request is not out of order, in view of the fact that the coming election will be a rather hard fought battle for Electoral Votes by both parties...
Would like to make a request which I think would interest a great number of people, that is an explanation of the Electoral College and how it functions...
...plutocrat desired last week to have his portrait painted, he would, if alert, have sent a cable to Augustus John for Painter John, after a frantic scurrying departure, was on his way to the U. S. while the rest were far away. Had he received such a request Painter John would doubtless have torn it into many pieces...
TIME (August 13) kindly noticed first publication of The Rural Digest. Since and to date (August 15) forty-one readers of TIME have written The Rural Digest either to subscribe or to request specimen copies. These are the type of readers to whom The Rural Digest is addressed and whom it seeks as subscribers...
...forces of moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton weasled, tried to shift the scene to local amphitheatres. But Nominee Smith declined to make a public show. He wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would not debate in his church. And the incident was closed with a few parting, typically Stratonian epithets: "Bluffer . . . Tammany trickster . . . coward...