Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When addressing a foreign government, custom and propriety demand that a foreign minister write it a note. But there are occasions when notes are ineffective. Then a foreign minister may address himself, say, to the public, talking loud enough so that the foreign government in question may understand...
...during the last political campaign, Democrats and Progressives harried Republicans with the demand: "Why hasn't President Coolidge acted on the Tariff Commission's recommendations for a reduction in the tariff on sugar? Is he trying to hold off until after election...
Germany to the aid of Poland or Czecho-Slovakia, she must seek permission from the League Council of which Germany is to be a permanent member. If the Council gives its consent to the French demand, Germany cannot refuse passage, under stated terms, to the French armies...
...smiling Sunday morning in Budapest, just after people were returning from early mass, news-venders did an unusually thriving business. The journal in demand was the Royalist As Ujsag (The News). In it, Edmund Beniczky, ex-Minister of the Interior and present leader of the Legitimists in the National Assembly, charged Admiral Horthy, the Regent, with direct complicity in the mysterious murder of two Socialist editors, Somogyi and Basco, which occurred in February, 1920* That so serious a charge could go unchallenged was, of course, impossible. The Government ordered the arrest of M. Beniczky, but not on the charge...
...Loan Library has proved very popular. This year over 1200 books were loaned out and the demand far exceeded the supply. The lack of scientific books, especially those on physics and chemistry, was particularly noticeable this year...