Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really tops by the superb assurance-acquired before innumerable real audiences in London and provincial theatres-with which Miss Fields does her specialties. High point of the picture: the Fields rendering of a Boer folk song, Vat Jon Goed en Trek, Ferreira (Pack Up and Go, Ferreira), as a request number in a Johannesburg dive...
...moment of despair he had joined the French Foreign Legion. Now he thinks he is being sought by the Legion as a deserter. Little does he know what his followers in almost 500 newspapers know: that fortnight ago the President of France pardoned him after receiving a request from President Roosevelt...
...authority of five members and an administrator at annual salaries of $12,000, and an air safety board of three at $7,500 annually, one of them to be an airline pilot. To the authority was entrusted control over mail subsidies, with authority to fix rates, determine routes on request and recommendation from the Post Office Department and designate carriers. The authority was also to set maximum passenger and freight rates as the I.C.C. does for rail and bus carriers, and enfranchise existing airlines with certificates of convenience and necessity, continuing all present mail contracts during good airline behavior...
Turkish troops were scheduled this week to march peacefully over the southern border of Turkey into the 10,000-square-mile Sanjak (province) of Alexandretta, an autonomous district of French-mandated, soon-to-be-independent Syria. Sent back to Geneva on the demand of Turkey, at the request of France, was the League of Nations Commission which had been invited to supervise the election of a legislature which, if held, would have amounted to a plebiscite for Turkish or Syrian rule...
Last month Station WQXR invited its listeners to submit lists of compositions they would like to hear, designated this month as "request month." Three hundred-odd replies contained 3,286 requests for individual compositions. WQXR's request poll found Beethoven leading, with Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Brahms, Mozart and Bach following in the order named...