Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quorum present, a roll call would have been automatically taken. A few speeches were made, for and against the Senate's amendment. Representative Blanton of Texas tried to force a roll call, but could not muster the required one-fifth of those present to join in the demand. So the Senate's amendment was concurred in without anyone in either House's being embarrassed by having his name set down in a roll call as favoring an increase in his own salary...
...this were the founding of a new party and more as if it were the disintegration of a temporary alliance. There were no outbursts of ill-feeling, but quietly the Labor element of the LaFollette organization dropped out; and it is expected that the Socialist element, balked of its demand for a "class" party, will do likewise...
...phonographers paid $100,000 to obtain a satisfactory record of Nearer, My God, to Thee. The items of expense were: one church, one organ, one expert, ten years' effort. These facts were used as an argument against any change in the copyright laws which would permit composers to demand larger royalties...
...Austro-Hungarian nationality question. The Serbs, led by white-haired Nikolai Pashitch, want a Greater Serbia-that is, a strong central government for the whole nation. The others are split. The Croatians want autonomy (self-government), some under the monarchy, some outside it as an independent republic. The Montenegrins demand a plebiscite which shall permit them to settle whether they are to stay as an autonomous country under the existing Karageovgevitch Monarchy or become again, as they were before 1921, an independent country. The remainder are mainly out for autonomy without geographical delimitation...
...PARTRIDGE PRESENTS. A reverse twist on the mother-and-children matter. The latter, brought up to Art, demand domesticity and bridge-building...