Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they are faced with a life & death struggle with a powerful European and Asiatic coalition? Does anyone suppose Japan would be flouting the Nine-Power agreement if she did not have English sanction? England has said "go ahead," for soon it will be England's turn to demand favors from Japan-close co-operation in a war against the U. S. Where are America's friends? There is an alliance between France and Russia that will soon be a three-power pact with U. S. the third party. Instead of playing down Russia and ignoring France...
...Superintendent of Schools of Cook County. I demand to enter my office," cried Noble Puffer on the eleventh floor of the County Building in Chicago one morning last week...
...racetracks all over the U. S. have increased the demand for racehorses...
...ducked down a side street, eluded German frontier guards, slipped into Poland. Clawing at her tar-covered skin, she was placed in a hospital at Churcuv "suffering from nervous breakdown." Aroused, the Swiss President of the Upper Silesian Mixed Commission for Protection of National Minorities, M. Felix Calender, demanded without result last week that the German Government punish the Storm Troopers who tarred Lotte Feingraeber. The tar having been peeled off her and soothing lotions applied, she said with returning composure: "I shall demand 50,000 marks [$20,000] from the German authorities...
...grip of a grievance. The King, as he peered from his palace, noted on some brawny arms the swastika band of the Danish Nazis, on others the hammer & sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage moratorium and dismiss politicians from the Government's agricultural bureaus. In a huff the Premier refused to see the farmers' delegates. Thereupon the whole 50,000 surged to the Royal Palace...