Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News elsewhere in the world. In Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, editors frantically cabled for longer and faster reports on just what Miss France, Miss Spain, Miss Austria, Miss Brazil were doing, wearing, saying at each instant of the final ceremony. U. S. reporters endeavored to supply the demand. In the Galveston City Auditorium behind the horseshoe platform on which the beauties paraded, were a dozen correspondents and as many telegraph operators. Minute by minute the correspondents dictated their stories. Sample dictation...
...past decade the number of degrees awarded has increased steadily and with the increase there has been a proportional increase in the number of men receiving honors. With the tremendous post war increase in demand for higher education in this country, Harvard has been forced together with every other university in the country to open its doors to more and more men each year. It is a remarkable tribute to Harvard that with this increase it has at the same time been able to steadily raise its academic standing...
...year. It was taken for granted that the twenty-five men chosen under the present rule at the end of their. College course would be selected largely on the basis of the honors gained in their field. The growing emphasis upon tutorial work and non-course study seemed to demand that excellence in this sort of work should be rewarded by Phi Beta Kappa to the fullest extent allowed by the existing rules...
...Hoover, as honorary chairman, sent Secretary of War James William Good to represent him, to make a speech. The Good speech did not fully uphold Ripon's claim to Republican primacy. Said he: "The party . . . came up, literally, out of the ground, everywhere, in response to a country-wide demand from the people. Events, not men, called it into being...
...when gross annual earnings had reached the sum of $10,000,000. Mr. Titus brought suit against Burnee Corp. His claim: That transfer of stock to the new company in 1915 was made without his consent and in violation of his rights. His demand: That he be given an accounting of and a share in the profits. The decision: New York Supreme Court Justice Peter A. Hatting held that Plaintiff Titus could not share in the millions he had refused to help build up. Justice Hatting pointed out that Plaintiff Titus knew of the transfer of stock rights...