Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possessively proud of their London Lord Mayor, Vancouverites reluctantly granted Toronto's request for a loan of him next month. But when Seattle in the U. S. asked for the London Lord Mayor, the Vancouver Sim shrieked: "No, no, a thousand times no! The nerve of them! The colossal gall! The effrontery of it. Seattle actually wants Vancouver to send the Lord Mayor of London down there ... so they can have a look at him without coming up to Vancouver...
...first time in a big case its power to conduct a criminal rather than civil prosecution under the Sherman Act. Late last spring Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings announced that complaints of oil price-fixing had been received, that at President Roosevelt's express request the Department of Justice would investigate. Three months ago a Federal grand jury began sitting in Madison, has since examined more than 100 witnesses...
...German people could not know that Charles Augustus Lindbergh was coming to them with high seriousness to deliver a great message last week. In fact they could not know when he was coming, if at all. The Colonel had made his usual request for privacy and for the first time since LINDBERGH became a magic name this request had been made to someone who could and would grant it, HITLER. At a word from Der Führer it became impossible for any German paper to mention that a borrowed British Gipsy-Moth had taken off from Penshurst, Kent...
...Montreux Conference was called three months ago to answer Turkey's request to tear up the Treaty of Lausanne and refortify the demilitarized Dardanelles (TIME, April 27). Ever since the Armistice Britain has strenuously opposed such action by Turkey, bitter with memories of her disastrous Gallipoli campaign. Responsible for Britain's interests at Montreux was the 7th Earl Stanhope, intimate friend of Stanley Baldwin...
...minutes later, in a talk from Neighbor Smith's front porch, President Roosevelt declared: "When Mrs. Moses Smith here presented my wife with that beautiful basket of flowers, I heard my wife say in response to a request, 'Oh. I never make speeches.' I never knew that before." The crowd guffawed. Mrs. Roosevelt looked flustered. Continued the President, with a grin and lift of his eyebrows: "Well, live and learn, live and learn...