Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday a parade of some 2,000 Relief malcontents straggled up to the White House in the rain, sent in a delegation to demand a 20% wage increase. Franklin Roosevelt was not there. An hour before, he had closed his office, gone into seclusion to work on his Second Inaugural Address...
About 3 a. m. he emerged from a 16-hour conference and announced not peace but at least truce. Terms: the union agreed to General Motors' demand for the evacuation of sit-downers from five plants, two in Flint, two in Detroit, one in Anderson, Ind. General Motors agreed to the union's demand that it would not resume operations in these plants nor remove dies, tools, machines or materials (except for the export trade) during peace negotiations, which should meanwhile begin...
...hullabaloo raised meanwhile by the Mexican Communist Party which is avowedly Stalinist. Its General Secretary,† blatant Comrade Hernan Laborde, massed his Reds in Mexico City's St. Domingo Square and roared: "Down with Trotsky who is living in the home of the Capitalist Painter Rivera! . . . We demand the expulsion of Trotsky from Mexico. . . . Trotsky, the rotten bourgeois-stalking horse, has already broken his promise to refrain from politics in Mexico and has insulted the Soviet Government...
...receiving a rising vote of confidence and appreciation. In serene sessions throughout the land the stockholders nodded approval to 1936 reports, listened respectfully to what the bankers had to say. Operating profits were up a little, security profits up a lot. Recoveries from bad assets continued to mount. Demand for business loans was increasing but interest rates were still discouragingly low. Government bonds were still by far the largest asset item. Commercial banks at the year end held no less than 60% of the total national debt. Over bulging bond portfolios, over record bond prices, the bankers were a little...
After telling the many ways in which pain may be relieved by the onward march of modern science, the doctor emphasized that "there will always be pain," that "many people demand it," and that "pain is by definition ordinarily distressing...