Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really consistently able southern political despots is Senator Furnifold M. Simmons, North Carolina's "machine" boss and senior minority member of the Senate Committee on Finance. Last week he announced that the Democrats would demand a tax cut of $560,000,000 in the autumn final session of the 69th Congress. Said the Senator...
Protests. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, famed Norwegian explorer, virile and impressive Viking, leaped to his feet and declared that he could not even hear the words of President Nintchitch from where the Norwegian delegation was seated near the back of the hall: "I demand a written statement of the proposals which are being moved and debated. ... It is proposed that the Council be enlarged by three semipermanent seats at the same time that Germany is admitted to a new permanent seat. I deplore the creation of semi-permanent seats for the aggrandizement of the larger powers over the smaller nations. . . . This...
...Adam's apples in their throats. With wrathful eyes they read that "Winnie" had somersaulted. In the absence of Premier Baldwin, though presumably at his direction, Chancellor Churchill had reversed the whole policy of the Cabinet, had turned it from encouragement of the owners in their demand that the miners accept longer hours to support of the miners in their resistance to accepting regional instead of national wage agreements...
Foreign Minister Briand's peremptory demand for the release of Lieutenant Demons continued unheeded last week, a fact which provoked the Journal des Débats to militant comment: "We cannot mince words any longer. An end must be made to this impossible situation. The whole French press, regardless of politics, is aroused over the insulting attitude of the Turks and the weakness displayed by the French Government in the face...
That in 1890 only 200,000 tons of gypsum were mined, but that last year the demand required 5,118,870 tons...