Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government to demand authority from Parliament to act by decree and to conduct in secret its operations to resuscitate the franc. (It touched a new low-for-all-time last week-39.01 to the dollar...
...remarks are most notable for their implication that the present Soviet regime persists in its announced determination not to increase the burdens of the peasantry. Firmly entrenched against this view are the "economic opposition," a not unimportant group inspired by Professor Alexander Preobajensky and countenanced by Trotsky who demand that the peasantry support the re-organization of the urban proletariat...
Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski left Warsaw a fortnight ago, ostensibly to "take the cure" at a sanatorium for nervous diseases in Druskieniki on the Lithuanian frontier. Rumors spread that the Marshal's notoriously irresolute brain was tottering. Then his personal jingoist news organ Armed Poland flaunted a demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain...
...Jumping Jack") Jones and David Kirkwood (Laborite extremists, chanting in unison) : "We demand ... to be thrown . . . out ... of ... THE HOUSE...
Chevrolet gets $8,000,000 to expand its plant. Now it is losing trade from inability to supply demand...