Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the campaign controversy over, the nature of the registration thus settled, the beginning of a new controversy raised its head: labor leaders prepared to urge the American Federation of Labor convention next week at Tampa to demand that Congress place the whole old-age pension tax on employers instead of splitting it half-&-half between employer and employe. This they proposed in vain when the Act was originally passed. Now they hope to succeed, being buttressed by the arguments of many Republican employers who before election stirred up resentment against the tax "pay deduction." Since the great majority...
...this episode was reaching its climax, into the Keelung police station marched Lieut. T. A. Pack-Beresford of the British flotilla leader Bruce, to demand the seamen's release. "I have obtained unquestionable proof," he said, "that these sailors paid their taxi fare." Snarled one of the Japanese police officers at Lieut. Pack-Beresford: "You say you're a British officer. We say you're nothing but a drunken sot. Get out of here...
...raiser, Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture. The audience, at once soothed by his meticulous phrasing, his insistence on broad, full tones, was no less impressed by his physical resource. Planting his feet widely, chin down, Conductor Barbirolli swayed his shoulders delicately through the lyrical passages, hunched forward to demand a pianissimo, twitched his kinetic torso and wagged his flying tails to call for quickened tempi. He guided the orchestra carefully through the tenebrous but imitative twilights of a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax, The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew. Like Barbirolli, to whom it is dedicated, the Bax piece...
...week there has been an unusual demand at the H. A. A. ticket office for tickets on the Harvard side, and the Harvard side only. Offers of seats on the Navy forty-yard line have been refused in favor of the goal line on the Crimson side...
...confused impression of changing color, and those on the Navy side see only the cards being turned. So until the H. A. A. teaches the Crimson cheering section to flip cards as well as they glide paper airplanes into the end zones, there will always be a great demand for Harvard side seats, and a great void on the opposite side as long as the Harlowmen meet teams whose followers spin cards...