Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read it in the same inebriated state in which it is written. It is time for the Lampoon to decide if it is to be a magazine or a club; and if it chooses the latter, then step down and make way for a decent publication. Name withheld by request...
...wave of hysteria should engulf the country simply because the highest court of the land has now defined the term "workweek" to include time spent upon the employer's premises at employer's request, including walking-time and time spent in performing various preliminary duties, such as changing clothes, sharpening tools, preparing machinery for production, and similar activities...
Whoever is on TIME'S cover next week (in this case he will be TIME'S Man of the Year for 1946) can expect, in the course of the following few weeks, to receive a copy of the issue together with a polite request for his signature from one of our subscribers who has patiently assembled a collection of nearly 300 autographed TIME covers during the last six years. She is Pierrette Anne Towers, wife of Admiral John Towers, who became Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, and Pacific Ocean Areas...
...Hitlers and Yamamotos were obviously unavailable, and the Stalins and Gandhis do not give autographs willy-nilly-Mrs. Towers reports that TIME'S cover subjects (the ones she was able to get to personally or by mail) are an extraordinarily obliging lot: none of them refused a request for his signature. Now that peace is at hand, Mrs. Towers has hopes of filling in some of the gaps. For instance: at present she is waiting for Molotov (says she: "He's very slow"). The prize of her collection, however, needs no waiting for: Admiral Towers was the subject...
...Cape Cod, Philadelphia and New York has accumulated more than a million dollars, a distinguished white mustache, a list of 40 miscellaneous clubs and societies (including the Bankers Club, National Association for the Protection of Roadside Beauty), and a bagful of curious ideas which he will dispense upon request. Last September, Davis, attired in a yachting cap, double-breasted blue jacket with a saucer-sized gold highway badge pinned on the inside, astounded his guests with the simple announcement: "You're looking at the next President of the United States." Later he disclosed that "I have the perfect defense...