Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio-that is the "standard of living" of a Ford workman in Detroit according to experts of the International Labor Office at Geneva (TIME, April 7). Last week these experts started on the second phase of the investigation they are conducting at Mr. Ford's request. In Poland and in Denmark they began asking about house rents, started pricing cars, radios, clothes, food, amusements. They showed startled shopkeepers whole trunkfuls of clothes and underclothes previously worn by Detroit workmen and their families, asked: "How much will garments of exactly the same quality cost here...
...Manchester, should prove that a shilling is worth more in one of those English cities than in the other. Inevitably such proof would rouse the British Labor Party to all kinds of imperative demands upon the Prime Minister which he dare not face. At Scot MacDonald's urgent request, the Ford investigators will probably announce their English findings on the basis of an average struck between the Manchester shilling and the London shilling...
...Excellency the President of Poland, Ignatz Moscicki, received last week a request. Meeting at Cracow, ancient seat of the Kings of Poland, some 20,000 Poles had signed the request. They included 160 Deputies representing six Parliamentary parties and 5,000,000 ballots...
...Appointed Minister to China by President Taft in 1909 he was recalled because of a statement of his policies made at Presidential, request from the U. S. He became a Democrat and in 1920 President Wilson again and without recall appointed him to the post...
...lies before me on my desk at this moment. When my daughter was engaged innumerable appeals of this kind were made, for, as you can understand, that was a period of sentimental excitement. I told my daughter, 'Everyone who makes a petition for clemency will be granted his request,' and that is actually what occurred. I do not like to talk much about these matters and do not often make them public, but if you want to you can reveal what happened...