Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Temporarily sidetracked by the budget discussion last week was General Weygand's request to the War Council to increase the enlistment term for French War Babies, now of military age, from a year to 18 months (TIME, May 29). The army was still much in the government's mind. In his capacity as Minister of War, Premier Daladier lately discovered that not only is there a scarcity of young conscripts to fill the ranks, but that the young men available are showing an alarming tendency to refuse service, as conscientious objectors. From the headquarters...
Directorships: Q. Of how many corporations are partners directors'? A. 167. Q. Have they used their banking power to force their way in and control industry? A. J. P. Morgan dislikes having his partners serve as directors; they do so only by earnest request of companies who want financial advisers. Q. Do partner-directors force companies to finance with Morgan? A. No. Sometimes such companies finance elsewhere but often finance with Morgan. Q. Do not the interest of the partners as bankers conflict with their duties as directors? A. No. Partners as directors have their chief interest...
...report results, in part, from a request by University Hall for student opinion on various phases of the House Plan. It will consider, among other topic, House athletics, room prices, and the selection of students, the use of House libraries by commuters, the work of the Central Committee for assigning students to Houses, the problem of assigning men to tutors resident in their House, and the distribution of men representing different fields of concentration in the Houses...
...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...
Revival at Rome. Almost immediately the stalled engine of Disarmament began chugging again. The world learned more about Hitler's telegram from Mussolini. Whether or not it contained advice on the Hitler speech, it did contain a request for an important conference. Into an airplane climbed Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, a War ace grown beefy, to roar over the Alps to Italy for the second time. He was a far milder Göring than the one who flew to Rome and back last month. In Rome the official banner of the Fascist party flapped from...