Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt, who knows how to get favorable publicity without resorting to an official press, this large accusation was too much. Deciding to make the vociferous Senator "put up or shut up." he wired him: "I request that you give me the benefit of such facts as you have in support of the charges. Once these facts are in my hands they will receive immediate attention in order to make impossible the things you say will be done, because I am just as much opposed to them...
Senator Schall wrote an insolent public reply which dodged the President's point: "Your telegram to me bears out the suggestion of the constant effort to mislead and fool the public. ... If it were not for the fact that I see in your request for 'information' an attempt on your part to appear as a victim of your own bureaucracy instead of its chief organizer. I would be inclined to ignore your telegram. . . . You ask me for information concerning what you yourself have done. Are you attempting to secure facts so that you may be in a position to refute...
...President's patience was exhausted. He came down hard: "Today I received from you a vituperative two-page letter which gives no facts and does not answer my simple request. The incident is closed...
...equipment anyway. In normal times the bondholders might sell the equipment to another road. But fearing that they could do nothing with the cars and locomotives except put them in their own back yards, the bondholders protested, and a protective committee persuaded the receivers to hold up their request for court approval until a compromise could be laid before them...
Devoutly hoping that Mr. Moley's kind words really did mean a shift in the Washington wind, railroadmen nevertheless gave the highball to their long-awaited petition for rate increases. The request filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission last week called for a rise of as much as 10% on a vast and complex schedule of goods. If granted, the increases would yield about $170,000,000 of the $293,000,000 which railroadmen say they must have to meet their swelling bills...