Word: requested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Novel as this request was, it failed to shock his colleagues who knew that only a few days previous Matthew Anthony Dunn had introduced a bill, solemnly referred to the Ways & Means Committee, to appropriate money to be expended within ten years "to furnish employment and to end poverty in the United States and its possessions." His proposed appropriation...
Arguing that his newest enthusiasm has good chance for success in the U. S., Dr. Potter cited Czechoslovakia's new penal code which provides that a person who "kills on request" receives a five-to-ten-year prison sentence, and he who "kills in sympathy" is liable to three months to five years...
When rising costs and falling revenues snipped the net operating income of Erie Railroad from $1,200,000 in December 1936 to $45,000 in December 1937, it could no longer meet its debt charges. When RFC refused Erie's request for a $6,006,000 loan because Erie's wealthy parent company, the Chesapeake & Ohio, would not guarantee the loan (TIME, Jan. 17). the jig was up. Last week, therefore, Erie wearily filed a petition to reorganize under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, its fourth reorganization in 100 years...
Taking up where he left off with Mr. Willkie two months earlier, the President ran through the memorandum point by point, challenging Powerman Willkie at almost every step. Head bent over the paper, on his desk, he was asked to raise his voice. Finally he hit the Willkie request for modification of the holding company "death sentence." That, said the President, was the heart...
...Yale University Library a student handed in a call slip for Yale's Gutenberg Bible, worth $120,000, one of seven of its kind extant in the world. The request was refused...