Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perle is go-getting and able in her own way. She is a money-raiser extraordinary. At Harry Truman's request, she hustled her checkbook out to Kansas City in 1946, saved the day for his campaign to purge his home-town Congressman, Roger Slaughter. As co-chairman of last year's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, she raised $250,000, kept at it doughtily during the campaign. Declared Louis Johnson, chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee: "When our crowd got discouraged, Perle Mesta would raise hell. She called us men of little faith. She was a tonic...
...writing a new labor law to replace Taft-Hartley. The Banking Committee, with the support of 22 Senators from both sides of the aisle, brought out a housing bill which would provide 810,000 low-rent housing units by 1955, just about halfway between Harry Truman's request and Republican counterproposals...
...crowd of between four and five thousand is expected to witness the event, and the large crowd, combined with the unfortunate Moher-Abbot incident of last year and the recent B.U. fracas, had led Captain Dave Key, Coach Chase, and Student Council President Fischelis to request that the crowd confine its enthusiasm to simple cheering...
...request for a 3,000-mile range was proof that the missile men had some hope of solving problems that were regarded a few years ago as Buck Rogerish dreams. A guided missile is no mere pilotless bomber shepherded by a nearby mother plane. According to M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl T. Compton, new chairman of the Research and Development Board, a missile must fly near its target unaccompanied and have some sort of "seeing eye" to recognize the target and steer toward it. Admittedly, this is a large order...
...noted, has done a great deal for Boston as well as for MT. Curley. This is a fact of which the voters seem to be aware, though the apostles, of the gospel of civic virtue have apparently not found it spelled out in their textbooks. (Name Withheld by request...