Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marshal's throaty telephone commands brought regiment after regiment at the double. As Pilsudski, eyes aflame, tugging at his drooping mustache, neared Warsaw, President Wojciechowski, personally commanding a troop of soldiers still loyal to the Government, barred his way at the entrance to a long bridge. Imperious Pilsudski demanded the resignation of the Witos Cabinet, the formation of a Cabinet largely Socialist. Since the President's troops were outnumbered, he could offer no more defiance than to refuse the demand, hastily retreat to the Belnedere Palace on the extreme western rim of Warsaw, fortify himself there, leaving...
...Blanton: "Mr. Speaker, I demand the regular order...
Tacna-Arica. The Chilean Senate voted unanimously last week to demand fulfillment of the plebiscite to determine the sovereignty of Tacna-Arica (TIME, April 19 et ante) which is being desultorily proceeded with in that nitrate-pregnant region lying, as everyone knows, longitudinally between Chile and Peru and latitudinally between Bolivia and the Pacific Ocean...
...What may cause an increased demand for U. S. coal...
Dodge. Dodge Bros, are keeping their production schedule below demand. "As of April 24 ... [3,300] dealers in the U. S. had on hand 26,921 new cars and trucks, against which they held 17,568 signed orders . . . the small surplus being reduced ... [a fortnight ago] 8,264 cars [shipped] and retail deliveries 9,566." (President E. G. Wilmer...