Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special assistant attorney general to help press for extradition through diplomatic channels. Last week in Athens Mr. Harness firmly declared that the Greek Court of Appeals had no right to pass on the substance of the Insull indictment but only upon the legal regularity of the extradition request. In his pocket was a warrant signed by President Roosevelt for the arrest of Fugitive Insull whom Forest Harness was ready to escort home like any common crook...
...substitute for Tenor John McCormack, who refused an offer of $5,000 to come and sing (his daughter is being married shortly in Ireland), the Tribune found a fat barroom baritone named Tom Garvey, who was carefully planted in the audience. At the director's request for "any singing Irishman to take McCormack's place." he rose and throbbed out "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and "Mother Macree" with sentimental gusto...
...exactly the same for both balls. When, however, the cover is put on, the regular type of cover is furnished for the American League, but for the National League a little thicker horsehide is used which necessitates a heavier thread in sewing. This change was made at the request of the National League several years ago and at that time it was publicly announced. There has never been any secrecy. Every one of these balls is made with infinite care to effect perfect uniformity...
...M.I.T. Graduated high in his class from Annapolis in 1908 he was selected the following year for the Corps of Naval Constructors and sent to M.I.T. for advanced work. Aeronautics as a science did not then exist in the U.S., but a beginning had been made abroad. A request from M.I.T. to the Navy Department, and Jerome Hunsaker was on his way to England and France where he studied wind tunnels, to Germany where he rode on a Zeppelin, asked embarrassing questions, remembered what he saw. Back in the U.S. he established M.I.T.'s first aeronautical engineering course, took...
...disturb the dust; it gets in peoples eyes and often makes them sneeze. (Name withheld by request...