Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thank you in advance for your attention to my modest request. I hope that we will both see the time when, in the mind of the layman, Mars will cease to rule on a celestial throne, but will take residence with his friend and cohort, Satan, in the bowels of the earth...
Mexican News Digest New York City Digester Oliver's request, both flattering and courteous, must be refused because NEWSCASTING (now given from 65 stations throughout the U. S.) is copyrighted by TIME...
...just been handed a cartoon from the New York Daily Worker, Communist sheet, depicting him as a fat ogre dripping gore. Judicious, big-minded, he smiled tolerantly at this libel on his integrity by friends of the defense?and 20 minutes later granted the defense's request for a change of venue. Fortunate were the defendants that somebody was not punished for contempt of court. The case was moved to Charlotte in Mecklenburg County where before Judge Barnhill it will be called Aug. 26. The defendants breathed easier while their lawyers joined hands, danced about, shouted: "We have...
...John Campbell Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, who directs excavations in Mexico and the Southwest, had asked Col. Lindbergh to make the pictures at Pecos near Santa Fe. The request followed the flyer's telling the doctor with awe of a Mayan temple city he had accidentally seen last February while flying over Quintana Roo, jungle- covered Mexican territory. Two green eyes had seemed staring up at him from among the trees. He flew lower. The eyes became pools before a pyramid temple. Tumbled around were the ruins of a city approximately eight miles in diameter...
...category into which most rum runners fall-bound for a foreign port. For months U. S. officials have been trying to persuade Canada to deny liquor clearance papers, to make it illegal in Canada to export liquor to the U. S. Last week Minister Euler met this U. S. request with a counter-proposition: "If the U. S. will insist upon clearance for their own boats to enable them to check and control their own people, the Canadian Government is quite ready to consider any further reasonable measure of co-operation with them." Minister Euler said two other things that...