Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davidson pleads his cause through your columns. I trust you will accord me a corresponding privilege, and will publish this, my request, that Mr. Davidson give the Senator Norris letter to the press, thus permitting my dead husband to speak in a controversy which must otherwise remain one-sided, because his lips are sealed by death...
...Hotel McAlpin, convenient to the garment centre. After notifying the Times and the Women's Wear Daily of her arrival, she calls on her store's resident buyer, who is simply an agent employed to keep it abreast of style changes, make emergency purchases on request. At the resident buyer's office, the girl from Atlanta is assigned a small bare room with enough furniture for comfort but not enough to distract her from the business at hand. Already manufacturers' salesmen have begun to arrive. They line the corridor outside the buyer's office. Some...
...receiver, Irving Trust Co.. which charged them with general mismanagement and with diverting $1,500,000 worth of profits from stock sales to their own pockets. A Federal District judge acquitted the defendants, was reversed last autumn by a Circuit Court of Appeals. Last May, on the request of Irving Trust which charged that his "pecuniary position is precarious" and that he had been "fraudulently conveying away his property" until he had "substantially stripped himself of his assets," a Federal Court in Manhattan required "Tony" Biddle to post a $100,000 bond to get permission to leave...
...machine that the New Deal, through Attorney General Cummings, dramatically turned loose on organized crime. In 1932 the Bureau had had the kidnapping racket dumped into its lap when Congress passed the ''Lindbergh Law'' which made snatching across State lines a Federal offense. And at "General" Cummings' request. Congress last year provided the Bureau with automobiles and armaments for the first time. About the same time the Bureau took command of another sector with the passage of an act enabling it to chase, catch and convict national bank robbers. With the passage of these laws the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...Soviet Russia's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ivan Michaelovich Maisky, had asked Mrs. Lewis to exhibit it in Russia where Communist maidens are beginning to take a livelier interest in prettying up. Since Mrs. Lewis has no intention of starting a Moscow Elizabeth Arden Salon, she refused his request. Next September she plans to take A Pageant of Beauty on a U. S. tour...