Word: requested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition to have the House regulations concerning the entertainment of feminine guests appeared last night on the bulletin board of Eliot House. It read as follows: "The undersigned express orderly disapproval of the new House rules concerning the entertainment of women guests, agreeing with the CRIMSON policy. We request a reconsideration of the question and a return to the former regulations which have functioned satisfactorily in the past...
...Sept. 14, about South Carolina, is so strangely well-informed, so keen in accurate discernment, that I cannot forbear to write you saying so. Only one who knew his subject would have quoted from John Locke's Fundamental Constitutions, written at the Earl of Shaftesbury's request, for the Lords Proprietors of the Colony, the warning against a ''numerous democracy." It may be that a too numerous democracy is a present-day affliction also beyond South Carolina's borders...
...loudspeaker was set up by Reds facing the fortress and connected to a microphone into which the Ambassador spoke at a safe distance: "ATTENTION ALCÁZAR! The Ambassador of the Republic of Chile, accredited to the Spanish Republic, wishes to speak to you! If you agree to this request signal with a white flag from the second balcony of the tower facing the Zocodover Square. Meanwhile the Government suspends hostilities. ATTENTION ALCÁZAR!" Five times the Ambassador thus adroitly asked the Commandant to show the white flag of surrender. Finally Alcázar cadets, who had been under...
...Speakers Committee supplies speakers for all possible types and sixes of audiences. Women's Clubs, Rotary Clubs, church and school groups request speakers on subjects varying from current events to discussion of the niceties of butterfly collecting...
...claims to have examined the archives and contemporaneous writings, and also stating this is the first time an authoritative voice from France has undertaken to puncture the Carolina belief that our Peter Stuart Ney, schoolteacher, was Marshal Ney. This article states that the French Embassy in Washington ignored a request for a statement as to the official view of the North Carolina story. I wish to state that on July 31 I wrote this Embassy informing them of my planned exhumation of the body and I stated that I desired either the Embassy, or one of the French historians, submit...