Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Call for Help. Despite this attitude, there have been hints that Pakistan might turn to Russia for financial help. And such hints, in turn, might be connected with reports that Pakistan would ask Washington for a loan. By last weekend, however, Washington had received no such request, and no Pakistan official had offered any public solution of the mess...
Back Again. The Railway Express Agency, which got a $61 million annual rate increase in September, last week filed a request with the Interstate Commerce Commission for another 10% raise. The second increase, said officials, was needed to meet a recent 15½% wage increase...
...Auriol asked 75-year-old Socialist Léon Blum to try. But M. Blum, it seemed, was living in an old man's dream-the dream of a troisième force (third force) which would hold the democratic bastions against Gaullism and Communism alike. In his request to the Assembly for a vote of confidence, Léon Blum antagonized the growing nucleus of De Gaulle adherents. He missed his majority by nine votes...
...President of the United States in 1956," Roosevelt wrote on Dec. 17, 1941: "I am writing this letter as an act of faith in the destiny of our country. ... My request is that you consider the merits of [this] young American of goodly heritage ... for appointment as a cadet...
Zionists here will furnish the settlement with books and scientific reports as well us maintain an exchange of ideas through the mails. The Society is at work filling Miss Shalteal's request for 15 scientific texts including works on agricultural science...