Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feared the adverse publicity that might result, went ahead and recommended Walsh and Sweezey for the regular three year appointments. However, it is thought that the Administration definitely opposed making a special case out of the two men merely because their views were known, and stepped in to request that the usual procedure, that of giving concluding appointments, be followed in this case as in all others...
...private he considered last week a request from the Duke of Windsor that a paragraph in the Court Circular be devoted in due time to announcing His Royal Highness' engagement to marry Mrs. Bessie-Wallis Warfield Simpson...
...forces. Immediately set afoot everything for catching the culprits. Stop all motor cars and detain them for triple checking." At the same time characteristically the little old pamphleteer who had spent so much of his exile dreaming and scribbling in the World's libraries pens a humble request to a librarian to be allowed to take out reference books after hours: "I would return them by the morning." Realist, necessitarian to the last, he ends the final letter with the same old plea for common sense: "You have been carried away by your thoughts...
...city-wide general automobile strike unless the police raids stopped. After a weekend lull, police evicted sit-downers in a printing plant, a W. P. A. station. Labor and the Law moved toward a showdown as Detroit's City Council unanimously refused the automobile union's request for permission to stage a huge mass meeting in Cadillac Square, and Homer Martin blustered that he would hold it anyway...
After ten weeks of negotiation, undertaken at President Roosevelt's request, the Association of American Railroads and the 21 standard brotherhoods and rail unions finally agreed on a way to take care of superannuated employes. Most important feature of this agreement between management and labor was that the railroads promised to drop their lawsuits so that when the third railroad pension law goes through Congress it will stick on the statute books. The roads were willing to do so because the new plan provides that 1) some $50,000,000 of taxes which are due under the second...