Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last request of nature-loving Swithin, 9th-Century Bishop of Winchester, was for burial under the eaves of his church, where footsteps and raindrops would fall on his humble grave. A century later the clergy, having erected a new edifice, decided to move him indoors. One legend says this so infuriated St. Swithin that it rained for 40 days after...
Russia staggered the already wobbly United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration last week with a request for $700 million worth of unspecified relief commodities...
Until now UNRRA has had plenty of money but has been short on supplies (TIME, July 23). But meeting the Russian request, plus a whopping $945 million order for China, would kick UNRRA's 1945 budget skyhigh...
Elliott Roosevelt, who rose from Captain to Brigadier General as an Army Air Forces reconnaissance specialist serving in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Britain and France-and whose prewar financial affairs are now being investigated at the request of Congress (TIME, June 25)-won his release from active duty effective Aug. 15. The War Department took pains to announce that it had decided to give him the release before it knew about the investigation...
...again in Trieste. Its transport and public services were tied up by a general strike touched off by the arrest during the past fortnight of 50 persons (including the editor of the local Communist newspaper). The charge: violating military security. A second strike, postponed by trade unionists at the request of the Allied authorities, threatened. Cried the Belgrade Radio: "AntiFascist workers have been arrested .. . democratic rights are being infringed...