Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lyme, Conn, the will of Actor William Gillette (Sherlock Holmes) was probated. Chief request was that the executors find an appreciative buyer for his castle and complete threemile, narrow-gauge railroad at Hadlyme. Wrote he: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet-to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home, founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock . . . that...
Denied was his request to see minutes of directors' meetings...
...request of many of his patrons, George Kaska, manager of the Fine Arts, has secured a return engagement of "Man of Aran" and "Power...
Jean de Botton is the only French painter accredited by the British Government to paint the Coronation ceremony inside Westminster Abbey (by request of the Duke of Gloucester). Yet when a friend took twelve of his bright canvases around to Manhattan's Harriman Gallery, the dealers knew next to nothing about him. After looking at the pictures, however, they decided promptly to hang them, did so this week...
...Three years later both the Trade Commission and the Department of Justice looked into the company's purchase of a fabricating competitor. Later that year the Trade Commission started an investigation of the cooking utensil industry, which turned into a seven-year Alcoa probe. At the request of the Senate in 1926 the Department of Justice investigated to see if the company was living up to the 1912 consent decree. Alcoa affairs have also been thoroughly aired in private suits such as that of Baush Machine Tool. Yet Alcoa has always received a clean bill of health...