Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the Capitol in the House, Mississippi's John E. Rankin led the NLRB attack. Fighting the Board's request for a bigger appropriation to handle some 200 cases every month, Congressman Rankin swore he would oppose appropriating another dollar "until representatives of NLRB cease the communistic activities by which they are stirring up strife in every section of the country, and especially in the Southern States. I cannot withhold my protest until the streets of Southern towns and cities are stained with the blood of innocent people...
...have only one request." said Gromov. "Permit us to fly from Moscow to America over the North Pole...
Some 2,000 youths from the U. S. are fighting for the Leftists in groups such as the so-called "Abraham Lincoln" and "George Washington" battalions. Last week they were calling upon U. S. sympathizers to send them necessities and comforts. From Manhattan sailed a 35-ton "by request" shipment, containing such eagerly demanded items as cigarets, chocolate bars, razor blades, soap, bottled fruit juices...
That afternoon Premier Blum and Finance Minister Auriol went at 3:30 p. m. to ask the Chamber of Deputies for "full powers." Frenchmen have long memories and everyone recalled how, when Premier Aristide Briand made a similar request in 1926, it was Deputy Léon Blum who cried: "Rather than grant such powers, I would prefer that this country had a king!" No less than six French Premiers who have asked for "full powers" were fought on this issue by MM. Blum & Auriol. In 1934 they accused that mild political tabby Premier Gaston ''Papa" Doumergue...
Into the dawn debates and dickers roared and muttered. By next noon the American Medical Association's spokesmen officially came to this esoteric decision, which they sent to President Roosevelt: "The American Medical Association reaffirms its willingness, on receipt of direct request, to cooperate with any governmental or other qualified agency, and to make available the information, observations and results of investigation, together with any facilities of the Association." This simply meant that Orthodox Medicine had succeeded in delaying matters until it could feel how the wind was blowing in Washington and arrange to fly in President Roosevelt...