Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even Germany's most embittered opponents will agree that the ideal of the Olympic games has always been one of international amity and fair play. In supporting such a principle, American athletes should suppress their personal feelings about the internal affairs of the host and make only one demand upon the German government. This demand is that no discrimination against any racial or religious group should take place during the Olympics or in the events preparatory to them...
Around to the Foreign Office whizzed British Ambassador Sir George Clerk to demand some sort of crackdown upon the Paris independent moderate weekly Gringoire for headlining SHOULD ENGLAND BE REDUCED TO SLAVERY? Affirming, with copious historical instances of perfidy, that England should. Gringoire concluded: "British friendship is the most cruel gift the gods could give a people...
...farm real estate conditions without leaving the city. Since the Land Banks have picked up a goodly num-ber of farms by foreclosure, the assembled presidents spoke not only as mortgage bankers but also as big real estate dealers with land for sale. All twelve noted a sharply increased demand for farm land with prices up in all sections except parts of the South. Typical were the opinions from the heads of these Land Banks...
Louisville reported farm prices in the Ohio Valley and Tennessee up 25% from a year ago with most of the demand coming from farmers anxious to add to their acreage. Land buying inspired by "fear of New Deal inflation" stopped entirely last spring after the Supreme Court's NRA decision...
...fact that Mr. Vanderbilt's bankers could demand payment at any moment is what bothers Mr. Jones. It does not bother Mr. Vanderbilt so much because he knows his bankers have no intention of calling their loans. Indeed, with money-lending what it is today, the bankers are only too glad to accommodate him. Behind his much-publicized, diligent playing with yachts and bridge hands, Mr. Vanderbilt is a quiet-loving, diligent businessman who applies his able mind to the affairs of his clan's biggest heritage, the New York Central Lines. Each winter business day he conscientiously...