Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts that Milwaukee had 107 strikes in 1934, that the Mayor's secretary and one of his chief organizers have marched in picket lines and made fighting speeches to strikers, that the Mayor himself was reported to have said to a group of strikers: "We must demand our rights. God bless you, I hope you win." They were aghast when Socialist City Attorney Max Raskin refused last year to prosecute a group of Communists arrested for creating a disturbance at a reception for German Ambassador Hans Luther. They profess vast alarm over an anti-strike-violence ordinance passed...
...hates revolution and dictators with all his Midwestern soul, has vehemently disclaimed the Red endorsement. But William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News was screaming last week: "A MAJORITY OF MILWAUKEE WOMEN DO NOT INTEND TO LONGER' TOLERATE A COMMUNIST-ENDORSED CITY ADMINISTRATION! . . . COMMUNISTS WHO OPENLY DEMAND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY, THE HOME AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION...
...effect of the Securities & Exchange Act upon Wall Street was a notable improvement in demand for margin clerks, that unsentimental class of brokerage house employes whose thankless task it is to keep tabs on customers' accounts. For the guidance of the Federal Reserve Board, which administers the credit end of Federal stockmarket control, Congress suggested a dual formula for fixing margin requirements which has been in effect since 1934. A broker could lend a customer the greater of either: 1) a flat percentage (now 45%) of a security's current market value; or 2) 100% of the lowest...
...from $3,224,000 to $6,147,000. Recently Anaconda and Phelps Dodge boosted the price of copper to 9½? per lb., but Kennecott held to the old 9½? level. Which price will prevail in this curious division of copper opinion will depend largely upon the foreign demand, which last year set an all-time record. U. S. consumption was still 50% below the 1929 figure...
...aviator's outfit Baritone Crawford was frankly out to cater to his audience. He distributed a list of 100 songs, offered to sing any 14 that were most in demand. His repertory was impressively wide, ranging from Brahms lieder to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Three of the loudest requests were for the Toreador's song from Carmen; De Glory Road, now popular because of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a Crawford composition...