Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undersigned, five or more California voters, hereby request you to publish the legislative record of U. S. Senator from California, William Gibbs McAdoo...
...high imams of the fanatical Shiah sect of Iraq's Moslems went recently a request for a fatwa-an ecclesiastical ruling. Asked by the Society for the Defense of Palestine to determine whether Iraqis should engage in a jihad-holy war -for their Arab brothers in Palestine, the ecclesiastics of Iraq's holy cities pondered over their Koran, read the Moslem traditions, looked into precedents, ruled last week that according to the words of the Prophet a jihad was called...
...Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, Director John M. Stahl (Letter of Introduction, Back Street, Magnificent Obsession) last week addressed a request for a series of U. S. postage stamps exhibiting the likenesses of cinemactors. Said Director Stahl...
...nation's canning peaches and every year has a surplus problem. Growers first tried destroying trees, then pegging prices, once got rid of their crop only through the aid of nationwide promotion by chain stores (TIME, Jan. 31). Last year, at the industry's request, State Director of Agriculture A. A. Brock appointed a Canning Industry Board which was partially successful in pegging prices, but left a carryover of 5,000,000 cases. Last week the industry failed to accept Director Brock's plan for limiting the pack of this year's 250,000-ton crop...
...Hoping, that you will not leave my request without fulfilment, I thank you beforehand on the best, and I am looking forward to your kind reply, which I beg to send me as soon as possible...