Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan was advanced by the Council at its Monday meeting. Brynteson predicted approval last night, asserting that he could see "no objection to the request...
...first appeal went out for the necessary million dollars. But to the surprise of the committee which had volunteered to raise the money, the request was greeted by vigorous objection to the form the memorial was to take. Perhaps the general disilusion over the gains of the war or a more realistic approach to its causes brought harsh criticism from all sides as to the suitability of a church to remember those who died for distinctly non-religious reasons. Some cried that such a proposal was not utilitarian enough; others called it too utilitarian. One influential group found it completely...
...Western Europe's defense centered in Washington. Very quietly, Washington has started work on a kind of military Marshall Plan; the U.S. Army has drafted a preliminary list of what the Western European alliance will need in the way of military supplies (and what it can produce itself). Request for Lend-Lease legislation would be submitted early next year to Congress and the nation...
...Popular request, however, caused him to drop the idea and take up the present one in which no team will play more than twice a week, and usually only once. The quarters will be eight minutes during two-game weeks and ten minutes during the others...
Released by the Committee's executive group, the statement said the Committee would request the Harvard Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs to ask their members whether they want a plaque or a student activities center as a memorial to the University's World War II dead...