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Word: requesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month we received a request from Ann Mulville, of Norfolk, Conn., for whatever information we might have on Salvatore Giuliano, Sicily's most renowned present-day bandit, who has achieved an international reputation for, among other overt acts, robbing the rich for the benefit of the poor. Miss Mulville explained: "We are having a mock trial of the case in our seventh grade at school, and I am the district attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...this climate, the debate got under way. Ohio's Taft spoke from one end of the line: "There may of course be a mandate on the President to request the repeal (of the Taft-Hartley Act), but ... certainly the people did not elect a Congress in any way pledged to [its] repeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hot Words | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...understandable English, the above is a request for three law students to participate in the "Blind Date" television show. On the program they will compete with the budding sawboneses from Ithaca for the privilege of squiring some lovelies on an expense-paid blind date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Budding Blackstones Wanted For 'Blind Date' Video Show | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

...accusation of "gross mismanagement." He accused the AEC of hiring 2000 workers without proper loyalty checks--disregarding the fact that these men were given only emergency checks to facilitate their work on projects where the demands of security actually required speed. He ahs ignored Lilientnal's request that names of accused workers be kept from the public by so explicitly describing one atomic scientist that his colleagues could not fail to know him. This sort of thing can only arouse suspicion and further depress morale among already harried AEC personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Public Servant | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...ignoring Lilienthal's request for a full-scale study of the Commission's work, Hickenlooper and some of his collegues have committed themselves to a biased approach--for one vital part of the AEC's work has been the setting up of sould civilian atomic control, and both the efficiency and merit of this program can only be discerned if the work of the group is viewed in totality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Public Servant | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

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