Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lead Belly was in Manhattan last week about to appear in a Harlem vaudeville theatre when Researcher Lomax again made news with another singing convict. This one was James ("Ironhead'') Baker, a Negro who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. At John Lomax' request Governor James V. Allred granted Baker a furlough to tour as a minstrel, visit penitentiaries in Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, sing his songs so that other convicts will understand what Lomax wants for his folk-song files in the Library of Congress...
...employ counsel to defend suits filed against his committee's activities by William Randolph Hearst and others (TIME, March 23), he wanted $10,000. Even more than the money, he wanted the moral support of the House and the White House. Therefore he put his request for an appropriation in the form of a joint resolution which would have to go through Congress and be signed by the President. But would the House, some of whose members had been badly smeared by the Senate's lobbying disclosures, pass such a joint resolution? To pave the way for favorable...
...mopped, beetling-browed Samuel Tilden Ansell, whose $500,000 libel suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long (TIME, April 24, 1933) was settled by the latter's assassination, asked for a postponement until President Roosevelt answered his protest against the "prejudicial attitude of the court." The court denied the request. The President sent no reply...
...asking only for an appropriation of $1,500,000,000 to the Works Progress Administration. . . . This request . . . will, if acted upon favorably by the Congress, give security during the next fiscal year to those in need, on condition, however, that private employers hire many of those now on relief rolls...
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