Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Republican Leader Snell sometimes has an even harder time running his much smaller faction of the House-its 90 Republican minority- than Majority Leader Rayburn has with his unruly Democratic majority had been made apparent on the very first day of the Special Session. To a request for adjournment for three days, which needed unanimous consent to be effective, an obscure Republican from Evanston, Ill. had objected on the grounds that "Congress should get down to work." By a minority of one, Representative Ralph Edwin Church thus forced the House to meet the following three days of its first...
...objection was enough to kill Sam Rayburn's request which, by the complex parliamentary conventions of the House, was no 'longer before that erratic body later when Illinois' Church-having created enough confusion for one day-was ready to withdraw it. Consequence was that the House of Representatives last week, for the first time in U. S. history, met on Thanksgiving...
Furthermore to help Captain Bertinatti, Waldensian pastor attached to the Italian Army in Ethiopia as chaplain, Mussolini invited hard-working Ernesto Comba, head of the Church and professor of systematic theology in the Waldensian Theological Seminary in Rome, to send along another chaplain, a request with which the Moderator gladly complied since, said he, "there are thousands of evangelical Abyssinians...
Granted to waitresses by the middle of the week was their request for laundering of aprons and service dresses at the University's expense. The Business Office further agreed to provide necessary clothing equipment for dining hall jobs...
...university on its ''unfair" list. Teachers Union members, who belong to the American Federation of Labor, continued to walk past the picket lines because their local rules forbid them to strike. But to all A. F. of L. members of the nation last week went a request that they refrain from enrolling or keeping their children in the university...