Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blue Eyes. Then into the committee room strode a big, tweedy, pipe-smoking man. He looked like the editor of a college press. He was Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the Communist Party. Appearing at his own request, he was armed with a 21-page statement. He had scarcely settled himself in his chair before he was in trouble...
...President, will the Senator yield?" is the most frequently heard question on the Senate floor. Despite its familiarity, West Virginia's droning Chapman Revercomb faltered in mid-speech when he heard it one day last week. The polite parliamentary request came from a citizen in a rear gallery...
...done, wrestled inconclusively with a welter of major & minor legislation, from service merger and rent control to a list of 25 proposed new holidays (among them: Grandmother's Day, Freedom Day, Shut-ins Day, American Indian Day). A new addition to Congress' agenda: the President's request to extend for a year export controls over 500 scarce commodities...
...number of Canadians who have seen Gouzenko face to face is comparatively small. At the Government's request, no paper has printed his picture, or described him any more closely than to say that he is a stocky blond. Between trials he has busied himself with landscape painting and writing...
...nation's ailing airlines got a quick shot in the arm last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board approved their request for a 10% raise in passenger fares (from 4.68? a mile to slightly more than 5?) to last for 90 days. The lines had cried that increased operating costs had made them lose $10,000,000 last year. The boost, they hopefully estimated, would increase gross revenues by $25,000,000, make up for the increased costs...