Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Total Congressional service of the Bankheads-including John and William's father, Senator John Hollis Bankhead- is a U. S. family record of 61 years. Of these William Bankhead accounts for 21. When, at his mother's request, he gave up an adolescent desire to go on the stage, spent two years in the State Legislature, got into Congress in 1917, William Bankhead's advice from his father was to learn the rules. He followed it, remained an amiable, well-liked but not particularly influential member of the House until despite a serious illness he was made...
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While Governor Hurley is right in calling on college students for safe driving, however, there is one request for which college students can call on him. That is courtesy and respect from police. All too often, when a student is stopped by a policeman, the constabulary takes a hostile attitude on the assumption that the college boy is a "kid who can afford to pay." Such a frame of mind can only lead to resentment from the student, who goes through with his brush with the law determined to "get away with it" next time, rather than cooperate...
...September 1936 and at that time arrangements were made for his continued use of Essolube Motor Oil for the Northern lap of his trip from Buenos Aires to New York. From this point contact was made with our representatives in San Jose, Managua, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador and Guatemala City requesting that the proper courtesies be extended upon his arrival. The Huasteca Petroleum Co. of Mexico was also notified with the request that they in turn contact associate companies across the U. S. border. We, therefore, were most interested in reading of the successful culmination of his "trek" as appeared...
...night he telephoned to a resort hotel in Switzerland the terrible news that King Albert had been killed by a fall while mountaineering in one of the few rocky districts of low-lying Belgium. Leopold had answered the telephone, put Astrid on at the chamberlain's request, and afterward she broke the news that stark tragedy had made him King...