Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India his regime has been marked by firm yet temperate dealings with the followers of Gandhi, who are ever fomenting their "passive revolution" into an attempted boycott of Western civilization. His reply to the Nationalist demand for an immediate revision of the Constitution was: "The re-examination of the Constitution may take place when the British...
Bull-elephants show selfesteem, Demand much coaxing ere they...
With the fall of the Imperial Government and the rise of "Young China," there has been an insistent demand that Britain abandon her role of customs administrator. This she is reluctant to do, feeling that she now has a heavy "vested interest" in the tariff; and alleging that the Chinese Government is not yet strong enough to administer a tax which the various Tuchuns would be only too quick to seize for themselves if Britain were not there to stop them. The U. S. has generally taken the attitude that China must be given tariff autonomy before she can "grow...
Your readers do not demand infallibility, but those of us who have read from cover to cover every issue that you have ever published do ask assurance that TIME'S statements of fact be made as reasonably accurate as careful editing and repeated checking can make them. At any rate, if you must at times err, please do so as to facts upon which I am informed, as I dislike even to suspect that your fascinating statements relative to matters about which I know nothing are not always 100% correct...
...Administration plan is the plan of the conservative business man-to put the business quickly on a strong financial footing. The opposition plan is a demand for more dividends at once. The Democratic plan will yield a larger tax reduction this year. The Administration plan will make possible larger tax reductions in years to come...