Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church, flatly declares that only 10% of Home Missions money is used for the so-called "competitive churches" and that a great part of that 10% is merely refunds to the churches in accordance with a Presbyterian rule that the Home Missions Board must return to any church on demand in any one year as much money as the church contributed in the previous year. Mr. Morse's report is generally accepted as another vindication of the purity of church financing...
...speech before the Missouri Society of New York (TIME, May 12, EDUCATION), attacked prohibition. Prohibition is a hobby of The Monitor. Dr. Butler 'did not advocate nonenforcement of the law; on the contrary, he placed himself on record as favoring obedience to the law; but he did demand that the Volstead Act and the 18th Amendment should be repealed as infractions of freedom and causes of immorality. A thorough search of a file of The Monitor failed to disclose that that paper made any mention of the speech on the following day. On the second day, a little three...
...demand abolition of the evil of dancing, which is ruining our country...
...selection of teachers. The demand for highly trained teachers exceeds the supply. Colleges now accept as instructors candidates having only the degree of Master of Arts. A decade ago, a candidate had to have a Doctor's degree...
...foreign trade and its great future possibilities. Mr. Farrell pointed to Cuba as an example of the way American investment of capital abroad had paved the way for an expansion of our exports. Cuba's consumption of American products now amounts to $44 per capita. The demand for American goods in other Central and South American countries, he declared, could be similarly increased as soon as American capitalists begin to develop the rich natural resources of these territories. Foreign trade, he stated, has become an economic necessity for this country, if our people are to continue in remunerative employment...