Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pained Request...
...white phone rang on the desk of his Secretary of Commerce. The phone was Henry Wallace's direct line to the White House. Wallace picked it up, listened and raised a startled face. Then he said: "If that is your request, Mr. President, I will gladly resign...
That was Harry Truman's request, the end of Henry Wallace's thirteen stormy years in the Government. Wallace penned a short note. "Dear Harry," he wrote. "As you requested, here is my resignation. I shall continue to fight for peace. I am sure that you approve and will join me in this great endeavor...
Soon, at London's request, the new International Court of Justice will review Guatemala's old claim that British Honduras is hers. Most citizens do not like the idea. Said one Edgar Gilbert Napier Gegg, a storekeeper: "In the momentous year of 1798 the question was settled decisively by the Battle of St. George's Cay" (in which a British flotilla defeated a Spanish squadron, assured British control of the coast). To show where they stood, the settlement's Loyal and Patriotic Order of Baymen revived last week the anniversary of the battle (which Guatemalans...
...black clothes and informal dignity. Into their hands last week was put the nettle of Episcopal-Presbyterian union. The lower House of Deputies had refused to grasp it, instead had gingerly pushed it aside by voting: 1) to keep for another three years the Joint Commission on Unity, and request it to draft a new basis of union; 2) to ask the Presbyterians to produce a similar document; 3) to call for a standing commission on Church Unity to be set up by the Lambeth Conference...