Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President picked Louisville's lanky, jug-eared ex-Mayor Wilson Wyatt as federal housing boss. It was immediately apparent that Wilson Wyatt was going to have trouble. Real-estate boards and construction men all over the country forthwith set up an outraged howl over the President's request for ceilings...
...escaped, made his way toward the Swiss frontier and then, three days before the Armistice, was captured again. His peacetime career was equally spectacular-he became the New York Trust's president at 33. He went to Washington, D.C. in August 1941 at Franklin Roosevelt's request, dived into the vast job of organizing an expanded naval air arm, managed to fly some 300,000 miles to and from war zones and war plants before...
...Navy and the Aeronautical Chart Service lost count. Inedible, but no less valuable, were huge rubber relief maps of enemy territory which could be rolled up like a rug. For castaways on life rafts: charts on rubberized cloth. For flyers over "the Hump": a cloth map with a request for aid printed on it in Chinese, Burmese, Lisu, Kachin, Hindustani, Bengali-and English...
...bastion of empire the proconsuls gathered. To Singapore, at the request of handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied "Supremo" for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain's genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France's dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland's determined Hubertus J. van Mook, Acting Governor General of the East Indies. Waiting to meet them and assess their problems was Britain's peripatetic Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff. While houseboys served cooling drinks, the masters conferred on a new policy toward 94,000,000 rebellious...
Lustig pleaded not guilty, said: "The investigation was started as a result of our own request to the Government." Snapped U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey in Celtic wrath: "He acted only after learning . . . that his books were being examined...