Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House got around to requesting Schenley Distilleries, which printed a big picture of the President in an advertisement on the anniversary of Repeal to cease and desist from doing so in future. Before making the request, Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early called up Alcohol Administrator Choate and found that use of the picture had not been "authorized." called up Attorney General Cummings to ask whether Schenley could not be prosecuted. In all the maze of New Deal laws the Attorney General could find none that entitled him to sue the distillers for their deed...
...Senator Gerald P. Nye, whose plans for enjoying the spotlight of the munitions investigation were upset by the President's announcement of still bigger plans to take the profit out of war (TIME, Dec. 24), called, by request, at the White House. He emerged mollified. Said he: "We had a very nice visit. . . . There is evidently not the slightest reason for the theory that the President wanted to end our investigation...
Last week a "mission" consisting of U. S. Senators McAdoo, McKellar, Gibson and Tydings completed a three-week visit in the islands undertaken by Filipino request. Already a convention had drafted a Constitution for the forthcoming nation, had made preparations for the "Commonwealth" during the ten-year transition from dependence to independence. The four venerable gentlemen were anxious to find out how their 12,000,000 little brown brothers felt as prospective fathers of their country...
...fire, not nearly so nonplused and frightened by the U. S. Press as he was four years ago. He understood the questions perfectly, groped now and then for an English word or phrase but seldom for a reply. Mr. Spear, confined to bed upstairs, sent down a request that the eminent man should pose for photographs beside a bust of Socrates in the parlor...
...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...