Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials of the Yale Club, in denying Swomley's request, explained that their mailing lists had been released to the National Security Committee through "error...
Committee members had little quarrel with this request. But they were disturbed by the rigidity of George Marshall's thinking. In executive session with the committee, the Secretary of State continued to insist that the main battle against Communism would have to be fought in Western Europe. Because the U.S. could not now, any more than in World War II, fight with equal vigor everywhere, it must consider the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Far East as theaters of containment only. Marshall stubbornly refused to think of China in any other terms...
Pending faculty approval, the new group will be christened the Radcliffe AYD. The constitution will be delivered to President W. K. Jordan for his signature next week. With it will go a request from the club that membership lists never be released to the F.B.I., following Harvard precedent...
...meeting this afternoon, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences should break through the silence. It must not accept the dissolution of the Geography Department as a fait accompli. Disinterested members of the Faculty should request that the reasons for this dissolution be announced. And unless the announcement is convincing, they should initiate an investigation of the Administration's decision. No such major policy ought to be determined and settled upon under conditions ever remotely smacking of a political intra-departmental coup d'etat...
...Fifth Day. At the Hradcany, attendants rolled out the red carpet (literally). Premier Gottwald called to present the new members of his cabinet to the President. Said Gottwald: "I request you to accept my assurance that we are truly grateful for the fact that you have aided this victory of the people and of democracy." President Benes still wore the garments of diplomatic dignity-morning coat and striped trousers. Said he: "You want to conduct affairs of state in the new way. . . . For you and the nation I wish that this way may prove a happy...