Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope the blood which my wife shed will do something to help human rights and justice." Then the long funeral procession wound up the road to a Roman Catholic cemetery where Sophie Crempa was buried. . . . New Jersey's Governor Hoffman stepped in last week to demand quick action in the Crempa case. The county prosecutor promised a thoroughgoing investigation by a grand jury to be convened this week. It was up to that body to choose between the Crempas' story that the deputies had attacked them without warning, the deputies' story that they had fired in self...
...step with the pound. Results were so good that thrifty Danish exporters of dairy products began to think results would be better if the krone were devalued not merely down to but below the pound. Last summer they marched in force on King Christian X's palace to demand that Premier Stauning make the krone worth 30 to the pound instead of 22 (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week in Copenhagen the Danish Parliament assembled and such super-devaluation was Denmark's rabble-rousing issue. Many a smart farmer was trying to give this super-devaluation a push...
...Internationalism of the Soviet Union since the days of Lenin gives me the right to call this statement a lie. ... A demand for proof of your statement would probably avail me nothing-and embarrass you a lot. Even the ''infallible" editors of TIME are human. So my purpose in writing you is merely to express the conviction that some researcher in Soviet America of tomorrow will uncover this letter in your expropriated establishment and experience a tiny glow of appreciation for my hopeless, but well-meaning effort to confuse the omniscient...
Whether the authorities of University Hall demand the occupation of the new student's father for some esoteric purpose of their own, or whether it is needed just to prepare an annually expected press release, may never be known...
...themes such as those used in "Buzzard Song" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" which are highly talented musical expressions of Mr. Gershwin's peculiar genius. Final judgment of the music is obviously the work of a music critic but the inspiration and dramatic worth of the score demand praise from even an unlearned quarter...