Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When we launched it, it neither capsized nor sank, and in joy we hurled a bottle of our precious beer at the thing, and in answer to popular demand, it was christened the S. S. "Flying Trapeze...
...came. Downward Spiral. "This nation slipped spirally downward, ever downward, to the inevitable point when the mechanics of civilization came to a dead stop on March 3, 1933. You and I need not rehearse the four years of disaster and gloom. . . . You and I can well remember the overwhelming demand that the national Government come to the rescue of the home-owners and the farm-owners. . . . You and I still recollect the need for and the successful attainment of a banking policy which not only opened the closed banks but guaranteed deposits. . . . You and I have not forgotten the enthusiastic...
...made to do its failing quickly and adjourn before Christmas so that political bigwigs could be packed off the field which would then be left to the naval experts. With Cabinet Ministers making fiery speeches for home consumption, with France publicly turning thumbs down on Italy's demands for naval equality, with the U. S. doing the same to Japan, and others offending each other in various ways, there was every likelihood that international hatred would be stirred up rather than allayed. As Ambassador Davis boarded the Aquitania last week, a newshawk popped a demand at him: Would...
...yield to Japan's demand for parity? "We never have," replied Mr. Davis. Then with a diplomat's sense of the danger of saying "No," he hastily added: "But I'd rather you did not ask that." Jarless. The third member of the U. S. delegation, being a professional diplomat, said not a word as he boarded the Aquitania. He was the least important member of the delegation, because Mr. Davis was its diplomatic head, Admiral Standley its naval head and he merely a third wheel. His appointment to the delegation is officially to last for only...
Biggest blow of its career was struck at ASCAP last week from within its own organization, when four of its publishers and their subsidiaries resigned their memberships. Together the four claim to have published some 40% of the music most in demand. They are Harms, Inc., M. Witmark & Sons, T. B. Harms Co. and Remick Music Corp., all subsidiaries now of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. which announced that it would hereafter do its own dickering...