Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall not attempt to coerce the Senate of the United States. I shall make no demand upon the people. . shall not try to impose my will. I shall embark upon no crusade...
Meanwhile the Republican National Committee reiterated Chairman Adams' demand that the Democrats say where they stand on the League. This the Democrats avoided. Attached to the Republican demand were two other questions...
...derived. Recently the number of Harvard men going to the Law School has declined. This may be an indication that the "floaters" are drifting into the Business School. Modern business is in reality becoming a profession in which a broad training and thorough technique will be increasingly in demand. New York Times...
...findings of the committee, the churches declare than an attempted justification is made on grounds of economic necessity, the shortage of labor and the fact that a shorter shift would force up the price of steel. The strongest argument of the churches is that economic laws "cannot demand an equal position with the laws of justice." The protest concludes: "A further report is due from the Iron and Steel Institute?a report of a very different tenor." How soon the "report of a different tenor" will be issued Is unknown. Meanwhile the cry goes up: "How long, O Lord...
There is a law in New York State which compels a stock broker to give, on his customer's demand, the name of the other party from whom or to whom the customer's stock was bought or sold. For this reason the bucketshops, which originally never bought or sold anything at all, must legitimately purchase for their customers, and this they almost always do. But the deception which they practice consists in at once selling the same amount of the same stock at as near the same price as possible, for some "dummy" or imaginary account...