Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer) stood erect at 12 when gaunt, bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver his address on the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress that night. That address was also to be broadcast at the best radio hour...
...Note-The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld...
...they visited Lubbock. Tex., Norman, Okla., Oklahoma City, Springfield, Mo., Memphis, Indianapolis. Getting used to his routine of eyewash and antiseptics, Dr. Brown said: "No special attention is necessary for Dr. Kagawa. I see that he has everything he needs and I am with him because of the Federal request." Dr. Kagawa, who is blind in one eye and needs a strong magnifying glass to see out of the other, said he felt fine...
...Note-The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld.) To the Editor of the Crimson...
Driving one evening from his office in the Capitol to his home at Berwyn Heights, Md., he recollected that he had an errand at a grocery store. At his request the automobile was stopped at Cottage City, a mile beyond the District of Columbia boundary. Orel Leen, a member of his office staff, guided the sightless Senator across the street to a store. They were on their way back when another car came zipping out of the dark, ran them down. Smash! Broken glass littered the pavement as Driver Lester G. Humphries stopped his car, was arrested for reckless driving...