Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their owners paid them what they thought they deserved. Only remaining major holdouts last week were Yankee Pitcher Charles Ruffing who was demanding $1,000 more than the $16,000 Owner Jacob Ruppert thought he was worth, and First Baseman Adolph Camilli of the Phillies. Second symptom was a request by Representative Raymond J. Cannon of Wisconsin to U. S. Attorney General Homer Cummings to start anti-trust proceedings against owners of all organized U. S. baseball clubs on the grounds that they were operating a monopoly in restraint of trade...
...wouldn't know where to put it, and after I had it I wouldn't know what to do with it." So, instead of asking the convention to build Cincinnati a new cathedral, as had often been suggested during the past decade, Bishop Hobson chose instead to request a trailer. Explained...
Since Colonel Green's widow could find no executed will, she sent to Texas a lawyer who asked for her appointment as administratrix of the estate at a $1,000,000 fee. Since Colonel Green was a Texan to Texans, this request was granted in ten minutes...
Acting on the written request of members of Coach Ulen's team, a committee of three Councilmen, John L. Dampeer '38, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. '38, and Chester W. MacArthur '37, chairman, are now investigating the situation, Council offices announced last night...
...about the failure to renew the three-year appointments of two young economics instructors as has been manifested in his other public statements. It was this which enabled him to cut through the sophistries of the Nazi demands on Harvard and; in the case of governor La Follette's request to him to pass on the Glenn Frank case, to expose the essence of the whole problem in a few sentences. Critics of Harvard contend that the two instructors were "dropped" because they had expressed political and economic views of which the authorities disapprove. Dr. Conant replied that in matters...