Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday Evening Post is the magazine most in demand at Harvard. Close behind it come Time, Collier's, the Reader's Digest, Esquire, and the New Yorker...
...Professor Mather and the other teachers who signed the oath with reservations must not be dismissed from their positions. It is perhaps an over-estimation of the power of the reactionary Hearst press to fear that it" hysterical demand will be heeded by any responsible person. But a restatement of the opinion of many students and faculty members, shared by thoughtful observers through the country, seems necessary at this time...
Finally, last week, he announced he had "yielded to unanimous popular demand," would not leave the Republic now. Through the censorship barricade easily passed dispatches ending ironically, "the news caused great rejoicing throughout the Republic...
...York Central's thumping repayment. Fact was, he was quite willing to sink more RFC money in New York Central provided the road's bankers accepted one of his proposals. In addition to its RFC debt New York Central owes its bankers $65,000,000, payable on demand. New York Central notes held by Mr. Jones's RFC are due on fixed dates, hence are technically inferior to the bank loans. Mr. Jones wanted equality. One way to obtain it, suggested Mr. Jones, was to fund the road's short-term bank and Government debt with...
...bond issue in the memoranda which Mr. Jones released last week. But New York Central's remaining RFC debt of $11,900,000 was extended to 1941. RFC will receive the same interest as the banks (currently 4%), and while the bank loans are still on a demand basis, the RFC loans become payable if New York Central ever defaults. Furthermore, Mr. Vanderbilt tried to patch up his spat with the RFChairman by writing: "Please accept our sincere thanks for the co-operative spirit which you have evinced in reaching a final and permanent settlement...