Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month depart from sound Republican doctrine. His cure was not to stop government spending, but to stop government borrowing. "In essence," declared he, "the system we demand is this: Tax everybody on the amount of money that he spends. We are all spenders. We must buy or die. The more we have to spend, the more we will spend. Hence, those who spend most will pay the most in taxes for the maintenance of government...
There was no grin on Joe McDonald's face when he told newshawks how he had headed a delegation to Governor Landon last December to demand immediate enactment of State social security laws. "We put it up to him and he told me that the needy in our county were getting adequate relief...
...consequence, failed of reelection in 1920. Returning to the Senate in 1931, this onetime Populist turned hard-headed conservative proceeded to oppose such New Deal innovations as NRA, such New Deal largess as AAA and the $4,800,000,000 Relief bill of 1935. To his constituents' demand that he vote for the Relief bill, he replied: "Much as I value votes, I am not in the market. I cannot consent to buy votes with the people's money...
...presumptively Fascist. They were avenged by catching a young Fascist, Jose Maria Sanchez, stripping him naked, tying him to a tree, savagely demolishing his head with bullets. In Galicia a plebiscite revealed that 85% of the voters are so disgusted with the wavering bourgeois-radical Madrid Cabinet that they demand self-rule for Galicia...
...muscles needed to keep the internal organs in a state of tonus is provided by the leg thrash, which is controlled by muscles originating on the pelvis. Circulation is speeded. The heart, more nearly on a level with all parts of the body, adjusts easily to the extra energy demands. Muscular contractions demand an increased supply of oxygen. The depth and rate of respiration are accelerated. Continued exercise in the pool makes for depth and fine breathing adjustments. Assimilation and elimination are taking place faster than usual. Weakness of abdominal and trunk muscles of students is due to a great...