Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance of these questions vitally concerns every student who is not in college merely as a social gesture. No longer is it possible to stake out a claim west of the Mississippi and sell at a profit in a few years. The world has come to demand more intensive training for the business of improving it, Lincoln Steffens notwithstanding. When the college man comes to realize this situation, he has awakened to the problems which confront him; and insofar as President Conant is able to carry out his precepts at Harvard, this student will be able to estimate his intellectual...
Assiduous research revealed that the bundles contained only 15,000 blue books which will be in demand very shortly now. (January 21 to February...
...response to the demand of the Union for a conference, Mr. Knudson, the Executive Vice President of General Motors, replied that collective bargaining must be met with the plant managers. This is ridiculous. Although it is a sound principle of industrial relations to settle all disputes as close to the source of the dispute as possible, there are many issues in every corporation which can be settled only by a conference with the top management. Furthermore, these issues are likely to be the very ones which are of the most concern to the workers Mr. John L. Lewis is correct...
...Labor leaders were surprised by a spontaneous tide in their affairs, they did not hesitate to take it at the flood. Pressing his advantage, U. A. W.'s President Homer Martin, with John Lewis' full public backing, last week reiterated time & again his prime demand: That General Motors bargain with his union on a nation-wide basis...
...good team alone does not make a major sport; neither do age and prestige help much. The demand by undergraduates and the public for basketball is requisite for such an accomplishment. At Lchigh wrestling has the rank of a major both because of its outstanding teams and the popularity of the sport with the college; at Penn State, boxing, for the same reasons. To achieve the class of a major, basketball must be popularized. This should place no further strain on the H.A.A.: in fact, the increased attendance which should result from a good team and the spontaneous music...