Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...request of her niece, Mrs. Sarah Morgan Gardner of Princeton, I located Mrs. Morgan in Kyoto in May of 1946 while serving in Japan with the Marine Corps. I found her through the St. Francis Xavier Church missionaries in that city, men who willingly testified to her devotion to the church and to the hardships she had suffered in Japan as the widow of an American. Mrs. Morgan herself, a charming elderly lady, who seemed more Occidental than Japanese, was overjoyed to hear news of her American relations, who are all devoted to her and have made every effort...
Throughout the unbroken series of discussions, the Legion itself indicated no concern that its own action might add to the box-office appeal of the picture, and at no time complained that matters were being delayed. At my request, Judge Stephen Jackson, who is assistant to Joseph Breen, director of the Motion Picture Code Authority, came on from Hollywood to act as an impartial negotiator. I also had Otto Preminger, director of the picture, fly on from California as soon as I received word of the Legion's action, and he participated in discussions on possible changes...
...days the prayers and the cries came on schedule, then suddenly the door opened and out marched strapping Novice Eshun Sato and 53 colleagues. They told a bitter story. "We novices had to wait hand and foot on the oldtimers," said Sato. "To convey a message or request to a fifth-time priest, I had to speak to a priest who was taking the rites for the second time, who relayed the message on up by rank. I protested to Chief Priest Nakakita, and for this I was beaten up by the oldtimers [he showed scars on his arms], Nakakita...
...Fine Professions." When the Rev. Jesse Pindell Peirce came to the First Congregational Church of Elgin, Ill., writes Randall, he gave each member of his congregation a "get-acquainted statement" which included a request that for funerals "the casket be not opened in the church if the service is held there, and that the casket be closed in every case before the service begins if the service is held elsewhere. Christians do not glorify the body, which does not inherit eternal life, but the spirit, which does." Peirce further suggested "that the family not allow itself to be coerced into...
...Jaffa's request was made after HYD chairman Harry A. Mendelssohn '48 bad labelled the faculty decision "a clear violation of the NSA bill of rights...