Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven episodes of Crusade in Europe that have now been telecast in the U.S. As you know from my Letter in the March 14 issue, the MARCH OF TIME made this documentary film of General Dwight Eisenhower's best-selling book, Crusade in Europe, at the request of 20th Century-Fox, which had bought the television rights from the publishers, Doubleday & Co. It is being telecast in 26 weekly episodes by the American Broadcasting Co., and TIME and LIFE are its sponsors...
...there was no "immediate peril" with so much steel around. His idea was to find a solution before matters reached a critical state. Said the President: "Surely you are not afraid to have your side of this dispute examined in the public interest." Again, Fairless & Co. refused the presidential request...
...drunkenness or disorderly conduct. The only Negro on the grand jury could neither read nor write. Circuit Judge George Lewis Bailes decided there was only one "reasonable, humane and practical" way out: he fired the ex-convict from the jury, temporarily excused the former Ku Kluxer at his request, declared a six weeks' recess for the others...
There were several immediate questions to face: one was a British request for a greater exchange of classified atomic information with Great Britain and Canada. Another was that the British soon might demand a larger share of the crucial Belgian Congo uranium production, which is now shipped mostly to the U.S. The U.S. would probably have to reach some sort of atomic accord with Britain...
Last week, when court officials entered his cell to take a deposition, General Castaneda spoke up: "I respectfully request my immediate release. My eyes are sick. I fear I am going blind." The court appointed two doctors to examine him. Their report: a boyhood injury has all but robbed him of sight in his right eye, and a mucous membrane is rapidly covering the left. They recommended immediate surgery. At week's end, the court had yet to approve the recommendation...