Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of an interchange on the President's request for power to control speculation on the commodity exchanges, a correspondent for a chain of business papers broke in. Would these controls, he asked, relate also to the cotton and wool exchanges? The President looked at his interrogator. Is cotton a commodity? he asked. Is wool a commodity...
...bank and stand in line for a magazine application subscription form of some 100-odd questions, in sextuplicate. Having filled it out, he then had to take it to the exchange control authorities who might take from a week to six months to affirm or deny it. If his request were granted, he again had to go to his bank for a dollar draft to send to us. To overcome this delay, 23 banks and offices throughout the world are presently acting as clearing houses for us, accepting subscribers' checks in their local currency and transmitting the amounts...
Brazilians generally agreed that Octávio Mangabeira was the man to get the democratic lines together on a sound program. He knew politics, from the ward to the chancellery, and he had seen the world-by request. His traveling days began unexpectedly back in 1930 when Dictator Vargas rode into Rio at the head of his gauchos and kicked out President Washington Luiz and cabinet, including Foreign Minister Mangabeira. For the next four years, Mangabeira lived in eleven European countries. He went back to Brazil, spurned a Vargas peace offering and had the courage to blackball the dictator...
These men, while unwilling to divulge their names immediately following the meeting, stated that the Student Council would be faced at its Monday meeting with a request for official recognition of the new society...
Meanwhile the committee spent the evening checking financial and admission statistics from the Hygiene Department and going over replies which other universities had sent to a request for information on their medical facilities...