Word: requesting
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Frank D. Fisher '47, appointed yesterday by the committee to handle all work on the Caen project, said last night that although at this stage nothing can be definite, he was certain that something could be done to aid the French University. At Fisher's request, the International Students Service in Geneva has already begun to see what specific arrangements can be made in Europe...
Their move followed a plea for "concrete action to alleviate the present educational crisis in Europe" delivered by Clemens Heller 2G at a Princeton Bicentennial conference Friday morning. A recommendation of the Salzburg plan by Cornelius Kruse representing the Friends Service Committee, complemented Heller's request...
...burying ground contains two anomalies Samuel McChord Crothers, a great Unitarian minister and essayist, is buried here by his own request, though he was not even born until after the graveyard had retired from active service. In a far corner, near where Garden Street and Massachusetts Avenue join, lies an ancient mile stone proclaiming on one side over the date 1734 that the distance to Boston is eight miles and on the other side over the date 1794 that it is two and a quarter miles. Obviously there had been some improvements in transportation across the Charles...
...President tossed Congress one stinger. He renewed his 1945 request for legislation making the Speaker of the House, after the Vice President, next in line for the presidency. If Truman should die in office, that would make Speaker Joe Martin President. From the Senate, where there are as many presidential hopefuls as there are Republicans, there came not a word...
...cool, white Malacanan palace, Philippine President Manuel Roxas found that story no joke. Last week, he had been forced to make an extraordinary request of his Congress for a special court to deal exclusively with the graft of public officials...