Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood. Onetime editor of the Kansas City Post and managing editor of the Indianapolis Times, for which he won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize "for the most disinterested and meritorious public service." Braintruster Gurley writes most of the Townsend Weekly, bats out inspirational speeches for Founders Townsend and Clements on demand...
...WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, asked last week about Florida's demand for Federal funds to relieve destitute transients, cracked back: "If Governor Sholtz didn't boost the climate so much, he wouldn't have a transient problem...
...messenger promptly arrived at the clubhouse with Member Leppert's resignation in one hand and a demand for the return of the President's picture in the other. Explained Salmagundi Secretary Frank Bates...
...living at a high rate of speed today and a good modern play must match this speed," said Mary Young, famous American actress, now managing-director of the Copley Theatre, to a CRIMSON interviewer last night. She added that discriminating people still demand the legitimate theatre, but with terrific competition from other forms of entertainment, the play-lover in a city other than New York is generally offered either only an infrequent glimpse of celebrities at exorbitant prices, or inferior presentations by stock or repertory companies...
...this, higher wages could. In other industries or firms where large profits still exist, laborers may be able to take a larger cut from gross income. But a general increase in wage-rates, to repeat, like a rise in the price of anything else, merely means less demand for it, which in this case means more unemployment...