Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME thanks Subscriber Goodwin for his courteous suggestion. But is there a genuine demand for this service? The editors doubt...
...briefly set down as follows: The miners wanted to make sure that there would be no reduction in wages and at least some chance of an increase in wages; that no system of arbitration would be set up which either now or later might reduce wages. Their check-off demand was retained, probably as a trading point. The length of the contract might so far as they were concerned be anything up to five years. But they were determined not to have arbitration, and suggested as an alternative having the operators open their books and having a board determine...
...Some 40 additional persons, many of high rank, were jailed or "unobtrusively guarded in their homes, to avoid scandal." One suspect, Deputy Franz Ulain, safe at Milan, foamed: "These counterfeiters are noble and venerable patriots. . . . I demand that Premier Count Bethlen be swept out of office for daring to arrest Hungarian heroes. . . . I demand that public admission be made of the fact that Hungary is still actually at war with France, and that the counterfeiting was a legitimate and laudable act of war. . . . The profits from the sale of the counterfeit money were being used solely to equip a Fascist...
...present change has been worded specifically so as to retain for the individual instructor the right to demand attendance and to exclude from his course any student whose failure to appear at regularly scheduled meetings of the class, in any way interferes with the conduct of the work. Exceptionally small classes and experimental courses requiring the cooperation of the personnel of the meetings, are ordinarily the only ones which will fall in this category and again the decision will not rest with the individual instructor or professor...
Affronted to the quick, Herr Schuerff caught the first train back to Vienna. There news of the event was received in Parliament "with laughter." President Hainisch, however, was with difficulty restrained from challenging Professor Guertler to a duel. Instead he decided to demand a personal retraction...