Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president in 1928. Among the visitors last week were: Edsel Ford, who told the President how he and his father Henry were going to speckle the air with new type planes (see AERONAUTICS). Said young Mr. Ford: "If business conditions continue good I believe there will be a widespread demand by the people for the renomination of the President." Richard Washburn Child, one-time (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy, who is firmly convinced that "public opinion will brush aside third-term objections." Patrick E. Crowley, president of the New York Central Lines, who informed Mr. Coolidge that "the railroad business...
...later including the captain-Nobile-in the title of the expedition "as a compliment to Mussolini and the Italians." Friction had begun before the ship left Rome. There was a scene when Riiser-Larsen, a big, strong, silent man, was reduced to tears by Nobile's vociferous demand for recognition and authority. "That man Nobile," Riiser-Larsen had moaned, "has more gall and conceit than I thought any civilized person would dare to show. ... I simply can't stand...
...marriage and until death they continued to lace. They laced up the front and down the back and along the side; they armored themselves with elastic and steel and whalebone, long, short, and medium, constructed in a thousand exacerbating shapes. Some of these women still survive. They continue to demand corsets that lace. They constitute, however, only 15% of the U. S. corset buyers, the Bureau of the Census made clear last week, reporting a banner year (1925) for the corset and brassiere trade. The daughters of the lacing women have trifled with their mothers' advice; they purchase only...
Forty thousand garment workers entered upon the third week of thumb-twiddling. They demand a 40-hour week, a guarantee of 36 weeks' work every year, limitation of the number of jobbers and the registration of contracts with the union. Neither the jobbers nor the union will accept the report of Governor Smith's commission. The impasse is complete...
...research revealed that the appropriations were $470,886,681 more than those of the previous session, but were six odd millions below the original estimates submitted to the 69th Congress. Senator Warren found joy in these figures: "Good times and prosperity are immediately reflected in a demand for increased as well as new governmental functions. . . . No Congress ever made a greater record or a harder and more honest and faithful effort for economy...