Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persuade braves & squaws that his plan is good. Justly do Indians point out that every previous Government move to help Indians has all but cost the Indians their scalps. Spirited young Indians who have strayed off the reservation to college resent any suggestion of new Government paternalism, hotly demand the right to become normal, unsegregated U. S. citizens. But Indians on any reservation may take or leave the Act's provisions as the majority chooses. Up to last week 176 reservations had voted to accept, only 76 to reject. First to draw up and approve a constitution were...
...treaty with the U. S. and thus violated the supreme law of our land." In Washington President William Green of the American Federation of Labor puffed out his cheeks, bellowed over the air: "The passion for peace possessed by the workers of our country is all-embracing. . . . The workers demand peace. They cry for peace. They think in terms of peace. They are opposed...
...immediately interested in the fact that a Federal Reserve Bank's chief asset is gold (today gold certificates). But he knows that his reserves must equal 3% of all his time deposits. If he is a country banker he must maintain a 7% reserve against his demand deposits. In Manhattan and Chicago, the two "central reserve" cities, the reserve requirement for demand deposits is 13%. In all other large cities the figure is 10%. All reserves above those requirements are earmarked "excess...
...Hollywood, RKO film studios refused the demand of the Central Casting Bureau that Indian extras who are called on to grunt like Indians be paid, not at the $7.50 daily rate of a silent extra, but at the $25 rate of a speaking extra...
Intelligent alumni of these three colleges demand the integrity of minor sports and of less profitable major sports, such as crew and baseball. These are so essential to the welfare of the undergraduate that they cannot be abandoned. Consequently, in lieu of any other proposal these colleges have turned to football receipts as their fairy godmother...