Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong. Lawyers, courts, legislatures, the administration of justice in general, and the administration of criminal justice in particular, are subjects of serious crit- icism on the part of the lay public. The strain upon law due to the changes in modern life, and the resulting delays, uncertainties and miscarriages demand a service from legal scholars in national law schools that can be performed by no one else...
...general interest aroused by this spring's play, "Brown at Harvard" which is a distinctly Harvard production, and the possibilities for number and variety which the large cast offers, probably accounts for this remarkable turnout. Apparently induced by the demand for a variety of types which has been made for this play, Otto Grow was led to enter himself as one of the Dramatic Club's potential dramatists...
...knell of laissez-faire is being sounded in the Caucasus. Government interference has stepped in to establish among the Caucasian tribesmen a fair value for wives. The maximum price for brides as indicated by the interplay of scarcity and utility, or in short by the ratio of supply to demand, is now fixed at $25 (half-price for a widow). In the future, the paternal monopolist will be forbidden to set an exorbitant value on the commodity he controls...
Since the Council can act only by unanimous vote, it was rendered powerless to admit Germany without Brazil. The Spanish representative, Count Quinones de Leon, intimated that he was instructed to make a similar demand on the part of Spain. Before this obstinate blockade the Great Powers halted...
...Malvy. M. Briand's purpose was to bait Malvy's detractors (on the Right) into goading Malvy's adherents (on the Left) into a blind fury, in which they would vote solidly for the Government when the Premier should make a "vote of confidence" out of the Right's demand that Malvy be ousted. The astute M. Briand succeeded. He rolled up a vote...