Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definite progress toward a compromise was announced, but Mr. Baldwin was obviously striving for some formula which would reconcile the owners' demand for a settlement of the strike by regional agreements with the miners' insistence on a national agreement...
...them their marks, write them advice, send pearls of erudition by rural free delivery. Shrewd customers; however, did not raise their hopes so high. They well knew that, like the Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin, California and other institutions conducting extension courses, Columbia must find mail-order pedagogy in such demand that an able corps of special assistant instructors is necessary to assist the faculty headliners...
Among the projects for which there is a demand, but neither money on hand nor a drive, the two most important are probably the swimming pool and the new gymnasium. Both occupy prominent positions in Athletic Director Bingham's program, and only await the necessary cash. Some of this at least will be realized this fall from the sale of football tickets that have been raised in price with the express purpose of supplying money for the University's "athletics for all" policy
...good way to seize the Government of Greece is first to occupy the central telegraph office at Athens with a handful of men. The operators should be forced to announce that the Government has been seized, and to demand expressions of loyalty to the new regime from the provincial authorities. With these pledges of support in his pocket almost any potent Greek can declare himself Dictator. General Theodore Pangalos seized power in exactly this way (TIME, July 6, 1925), and held on for 13 months. His successor, General Kondylis, accomplished his coup by methods equally simple and unconstitutional (TIME...
Those who held the Office successfully throughout the week were adherents of Dictator Kondylis. Early in the week Colonel Zeryas, commander of the Republican Guard which had been supporting General Kondylis, strode into the new Dictator's office and demanded tangible spoil for himself and his men as their wages for deserting General Pangalos. Dictator Kondylis refused the Colonel's demand. Colonel Zervas, vexed, grew purple, spat in the General's face, cried: "I made you Dictator and I can unmake...