Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 17, 1917, King George V renounced his German titles, changed the name of Britain's royal house from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Following his request, his cousins of the house of Battenberg became Mountbattens...
Here at Harvard, Student Council representatives are conferring with University officials attempting to outline a program that will meet President Truman's request for food conservation. Since the University buys its food and sets its menus at least a week before the students encounter them in the dining halls, no action was possible this week...
...give either at athletic contests or through organizations with which they are affiliated. So far this year the H.A.A. has collected $650 to be contributed toward the general Olympic fund allocated by the executive committee. On the back of this year's Yale game ticket application is a request for money for Harvard's contribution to the games...
...Faculty's request, the Law School Association, representing 18,000 alumni, has announced a campaign to raise $100,000 for the book repository, which will serve as a memorial for the School's 200 World War I and II dead. Already the Association's officers, headed by ex-Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, have donated $5,000 to the project...
Reginald H. Smith, Jr. '37, treasurer of the Law School Association, voiced official rebuttal last night to the request for a more "useful" memorial. "Nothing will have greater utilitarian value, beauty, and dignity" than the Treasure Room. It "can be used by scholars from all over the world," he stated...