Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussed, described. Young Pioneers are taught allegiance to the Red flag, which follows summer camps. Charles G. Wood, Commissioner of Conciliation in the Department of Labor, testified that at the Wing- dale, N. Y., camp customs include: 1) a slogan: "Wipe God from the skies;" 2) a table request: "God damn it, pass the bread." The Committee resolved to visit Wingdale and other Young Pioneer camps...
Under the new contract, as an "accommodation" to the Union, the operators "upon the request of any employe will receive from [him] on payday, at a point convenient to the pay office and transmit to the district [union] treasurer, an amount not in excess of $1 per month." The operators decline to "solicit or compel contributions...
...Texas a committee organized at the request of the Texas Railroad Commission to study oil conditions suggested a reduction of 126,000 bbl. of crude in the State's average daily production. Present daily average is 863,450 bbl. Maximum demand according to the committee is 76,500 bbl. less than the average production...
...York, still by far the biggest U. S. city, still second in the world, awaited the Census Bureau's decision on the plea of Atlanta, Ga. that it be allowed to include Greater Atlanta, as London does Greater London, in its census count. If the Bureau refuses Atlanta's request, it lends official U. S. support to New York City's claim to first place among world metropolises...
...Wiley's last public appearance was at the request of his old friend Dr. Henry Kurd Rusby of Columbia University.* He testified in confirmation of a technical point in Dr. Rusby's charges that the pure drug laws are not now being properly enforced (TIME, June 16, and p. 34). That day in the committee room he was heard to say: "I'd just as soon draw my last breath right here...