Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then, we wish to offer to the people of this country another common virtue-the virtue of common courage at home to speak those things which we believe and let the public pass their judgment upon them; courage in legislation to refuse, if need be, a general demand, if clearly adverse to the interests of the country; courage in administration...
...They energetically demand the maintenance of the laws which governed the schools and the relations between the Church and the State at the moment of their return to France. They demand the withdrawal of the teaching personnel and the withdrawal of the scholastic books which do not respond to the spirit of the confessional schools. This personnel and these books have been surreptitiously introduced in the schools by the educational authorities...
...They demand, in place of the decisions of certain municipal councils which are in flagrant opposition to the will of the parents, to be allowed to make known what is the will of the people in the questions which concern the Church and the schools...
...many months ago, some of these companies were very much undercapitalized. Atlantic Refining was a conspicuous example. Surplus was out of all proportion to capital on the balance sheet. Also, political liberals in Washington, about that time, began to demand a tax on corporate surpluses. To avoid such an unpleasant occurrence, generous stock dividends became the order of the day. Atlantic Refining, for example, declared a 900% stock dividend. No longer was under-capitalization so common among Standard Oil companies...
Lately surplus stocks of copper have been considerably reduced, demand has improved, and the producer is beginning to be favored by economic forces in the industry. On the theory that every dog has his day, the copper producers apparently intend to secure highest possible prices for their output, and to meet mystery concerning the demand with an equally dense mystery about the supply...