Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Order must not be disturbed in any way. This I demand with the utmost severity . . . All Fascists will obey, as always.-MUSSOLINI...
...does the U. S. bar from its post such naiveties as this, friends of Judge might hotly demand? To them the thoughtful will answer: "Postmaster John Kiely [of New York City] is, like you, a friend of Judge. He well knows that there is no honest Rabelaisian lewdness in the pages of this flaccid journal; he must have been able to see that the editors were engaged in the far dirtier business of trying to make the clean appear foul. By barring the issue he has done the publisher a notable favor...
This situation in the opinion of Detroit, spells the most competitive year ahead in the history of the industry. It seems doubtful whether the public demand will absorb this greater production. The probability therefore is that the more popular and efficient motor producers will make further inroads upon their less favored competitors...
...This action is said to have been taken as a result of the terrific demand for more memberships created by recent record breaking dealings on the Exchange. And it is confidently expected that each of the new seats can be disposed of at the record price of $135,000, paid for a membership sold a fortnight ago. This would give the Exchange $3,375,000 new working capital; a sum which the Governors probably feel they would have difficulty in realizing at a moment less opportune than the present...
...Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like John Selman, who resented any one else killing men in "his" town. Author White's complex is similar: let no one else tell the story of "his" El Paso. It is a reasonable demand and nothing tame rewards its granting. He averages about two corpses a paragraph. He presents whole regiments of unwashed, flannel-shirted, gun-hung bartenders. There is a rakish analogy of the Red man, the White man and the Blue law. There is the story of a Manhattan cocktail, mixed of ingredients...