Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration's friends were uneasy. They could vote down Mr. Long's proposal but they could not silence him. He seemed determined to make Mr. Farley a daily topic of denunciation. Before the Post Offices and Post Roads Committee could act on his request for a Farley investigation he offered another resolution ordering Secretary Ickes to send to the Senate any reports by his investigators about attempts by Mr. Farley or companies in which he is interested to profit from PWA contracts. It was a shrewd move, for Mr. Ickes and Mr. Farley have clashed on many points...
...Denver Zoo received from Major-General Butler last week a request for a young bald eagle which he could train to appear on lecture platforms with him. Zoo Director Clyde Hill, perplexed, inspected his eagles, replied that a bald eagle is virtually indistinguishable until, at the age of about two years, its head feathers turn white...
...Plumas County, Calif., acquitted of murdering her Indian husband with an ax, Squaw Emma Elam told the judge she wanted her ax back. Given it, she asked the court to clean off the bloodstains, sharpen the blade. Said the judge, refusing her request: "Such crust...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be with-held...