Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served for about four months as a first lieutenant in the World War. I suppose that I may expect my co-veterans to demand in due course that I be paid about $2,700 for my adventure...
...keep the issue alive from a news angle, Publisher William Randolph Hearst jumped into the spotlight with a demand that the court keep Western Union from giving up to the Senate Committee a certain telegram which he sent April 5, 1935 to James T. Williams Jr., Hearst editorial writer in Washington, ordering a series of anti-New Deal editorials. Since this telegram was specifically named in a Senate subpoena, Justice Wheat declared it could not be classed as an unreasonable search and seizure of papers...
...will attract attention, and that is probably all its progenitors hoped to achieve. The splendid points of the program, the stab at the Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at the sometime patriots who in return for a sacrifice to their country now demand a neutralizing and unnecessary sacrifice, these are lost in the superficial hilarity of the thoughtless abandon of youth...
...made $3,227,000-a profit margin of over 50%. Year before its profits were $1,790,000. During 1935 the company paid off its $1,000,000 funded debt, boosted dividends four successive times. "Plans are under way for increasing production facilities to keep pace with the increasing demand for the company's product," wrote President Max Schott. Calling for a $2,600,000 expenditure, this expansion will be financed from profits...
Since the University has made no effort to freeze into a permanent mould the relative size of the departments, there is no cause for complaint about the harshness of the quota system. Many departments have already increased their quotas, bowing to popular demand, and it is hopeful that similar reorganization will constantly take place in accordance with current preferences. The quotas are set mostly for administrative purposes alone, and the Freshman in good standing who has the conviction of his choice need have no fear of the specter of a departmental lockout...