Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator McMaster, South Dakota Republican, unexpectedly chimed in to demand just what assurance of action on farm relief the "progressives" had obtained. He discomfited his Republican brethren with a resolution to bring up revision of the industrial tariff, that being the vulnerable spot of farm-relief antagonists. Senator Brookhart tousled himself afresh in a harangue to the effect that he was proud of having once been "kicked out" of the G. O. P. "There are only two parties in the United States now," he cried. "One is the Wall Street party and the other is that opposed to it." Senator...
...Courses demand consent of instructor for registration...
...tried to eliminate poison from alcohols. Production of alcohol in 1927 was 184,323,016 gals., a decrease since 1926 of 17,948,653 gals. The Prohibition Bureau's 1928 policy will be to supervise U. S. alcohol production, restricting it to the known demand of legitimate industry...
Persons who ignored this forensic defense were inclined to believe that the League investigators are right in believing that: 1) An international traffic in women (with and without their consent) is steadily carried on through smoothly organized and richly financed channels; 2) The prevailing demand for French women makes that country a leading source of supply but also causes many women recruited from Eastern Europe to declare falsely that they are French; 3) The chief regions of demand are Egypt and South America; and the leading cities of consumption are Alexandria, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro; 4) The chief...
George Washington. So great has transatlantic tourist travel become and so insistent the demand for ships with only one type of cabin accommodations that the United States Lines ordered their second largest vessel, the George Washington, changed from first-class to cabin service. Last week the interior alterations were almost completed. On Jan. 4 she will sail for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Bremen. The change groups the George Washington with the United States Lines' other cabin ships, the Republic, President Roosevelt, President Harding and America, in immediate competition with the White Star Line's Baltic and the North German...