Word: requested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Reading boldly asked for a billion dollars. Banker Morgan appeared mildly surprised, suggested that the Allies accept half a billion. Lord Reading returned to the U. S. as special envoy, borrowed billions more. Upon the retirement of Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice he became Ambassador at the special request of the U. S. State Department...
...your edition of Oct. 3 mention is made of a request for a poem to inspire the schoolchildren. May I offer the following to be given to one of America's poets to use as a beginning for such a poem...
...could campaign without daily reminding the public of the unfair nature of the hearings conducted by the Governor of our state. This would do the Democratic ticket no good. . . . Rather than jeopardize the hopes of democracy in the nation which I feel my candidacy might do I request that my name be withheld from the convention." "We want Jimmy!" yelled the delegates, booing the reference to Governor Roosevelt. But after a Tammany sachem had delivered a nominating speech hastily scribbled on his knee, Surrogate O'Brien was chosen automatically. Applause was perfunctory. Half the delegates walked out during...
...story shows Sally Eilers declining to sell liquor for the bootlegging hat-check overlord as she consents at his request to go to a playboy's party. Irritably chaste, she accepts the use of an empty apartment where the returning owner (Ben Lyon) finds her in bed. True love is instantaneous. Menaces appear in the persons of the hat-check overlord who "frames" her, and the scandal sheet editor who is part of her past. They operate to defer the marriage until the editor is found dead and Ben Lyon is arrested for the murder. When this mistake...
...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...