Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scarcely a month after moving in, Prince Phil ip last week was recalled (at his own request) to active duty as a lieutenant with the Royal Navy, after ten months on the half-pay list...
...request he was buried in once-damned Swedish soil, under a simple oak cross bearing the inscription Ave Crux Spes Unica (Hail, Cross! The Only Hope...
...Democracy Has Triumphed." Early in the morning, the government decided to make a deal. At President Arevalo's request, the Papal Nuncio and the ambassadors of El Salvador and Argentina asked for a truce and offered the rebels generous terms, including amnesty and a government reorganization. Running low on ammunition, the rebels agreed...
...appointment of a new bureau director: the Rev. Thomas J. McCarthy, 37, editor of the hard-hitting Los Angeles Catholic weekly, the Tidings, and a leader among the younger, liberal element in the church. Tall, silver-haired Father McCarthy went to Los Angeles in 1937 at his own request, just after he had been ordained in Springfield, Mass., in his home diocese. "I don't think I could have stood New England," he says now. "The forward movement is so imperceptible...
...thought Wisconsin Boy had a chance in Chicago's rich ($74,975) Arlington Futurity was Owner W. M. Peavey, a paper-mill operator from Ladysmith, Wis. His Wisconsin Boy romped home, paying $38 for $2. At Detroit, a longshot named Our Request ($23.60) galloped off with the Rose Leaves Stakes. In the Betsy Ross Stakes at Boston's Suffolk Downs, Growing Up ($30.20) surprised the connoisseurs. Colonel Mike, winner of the Lamplighter Handicap at Monmouth Park (N.J.), paid $21.60. In New York, there was a slight delay while the judges examined the photograph after the $58,400 Butler...