Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican demand for sound money, interpreted by Nominee Landon as "convertible into gold," was matched by a looking-both-ways plank designed not to offend commodity-dollar men, silverites or inflationists: "We approve the objective of a permanently sound currency so stabilized as to prevent the former wide fluctuations in value . . . a currency which will permit full utilization of the country's resources...
Sting No. 2. The Emperor sent to sit in the League Council one of his most famed generals, Ras Nasibu, who for months held the Italians at bay. "The Emperor has retained all his rights," declared the Ras. "The Emperor has never ceased and does not now cease to demand from every one of the States that have signed the League of Nations Covenant execution of their promises made to Ethiopia, which are clearly set out in the articles of the Covenant bearing the signature of every member state...
...Wesleyan University, led audiences in such rousing hymns as Brighten the Corner Where You Are! The decline of old-style evangelism and the death of Billy Sunday left Homer Rodeheaver less newsworthy but no less busy. Unctuous, large of frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices in Chicago and Philadelphia, keeps his friends in formed of his activities in periodic news letters which he calls "Rainbow-Graphs." A firm believer in music as a religious force, Homer...
...Union, to rally British public opinion in support of Sanctions and against Italy. Lord Cecil had just issued "the most serious, most urgent communication" he had ever made to the British public, declaring: "Since our honor and the future of our civilization are involved, we have the right to demand that our Gov ernment should openly declare its conviction that the Covenant of the League of Nations must be carried out. . . . Sanctions should be maintained and if necessary increased...
...provision included. April 10: Ford elected 1937 Hockey Captain. April 15: Princeton-Harvard-Yale conference on public affairs announced by Crimson, News, and Tiger. Conant and Holcombe support move. April 17: Davidson and Navy on 1937 football schedule. April 21: Veterans of Future Wars hold mass meeting in Emerson. Demand bonus. Government 1 and Ec. A reorganized under Holcombe and Ec. committee. April 29: Hygiene fee raised...