Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand of Ethiopia, the League Council last week called Italy to the mat. Ethiopia was represented by Professor Gaston Jeze of the Paris Sorbonne. To smash him Dictator Benito Mussolini sent to Geneva the hard-bitten Italian naval officer who, during the War, smashed Imperial Austria's network of spies after they had succeeded in blowing up two Italian battleships...
...Give no information to officers, only your name. Plead not guilty and demand a trial. Demand that the ILD defend you. Insist that you be let out on your own recognizance. If they refuse, demand that they set a low bail. Demand a copy of the complaint. Do not sign anything. Carry on the class fight in jail and in the courts...
...arrested man, peering now & then into the pamphlet, gave no information, gave his name as John H. Porter, telephoned the International Labor Defense, demanded a copy of the complaint, signed nothing. In Night Court he pleaded not guilty, insisted that he be let out on his own recognizance, was preparing to demand a low bail when the judge adjourned the case, released him on his own recognizance...
...bonus of 5,000 rubles for the privilege of not being evicted. When the suit appeared to be dragging on. Moscow's meanest landlady got herself a cartwhip, cracked it ominously in the presence of her lodgers and screamed: "Comrade, unless you pay me the bonus I demand, I'll horsewhip your children, I'll horsewhip your wife, and I'll throw you out with the slops!" In the capital of a Communist State such Capitalist carryings on are "intolerable," as the Government Press remarked last week. Unfortunately they were made possible by the late, great...
...Martin Halabian was clapped into jail as a suspicious character. Presently the clerk of the Chelsea court received a Western Union telegram from the New Theatre League of Manhattan. It read: "Our National Executive Committee, representing 300 theaters, vigorously protests action against Richard Frey and New Theater players and demands their immediate release." Not long afterward Judge Samuel R. Cutler of the same court received an unsigned Western Union telegram which read: "The 200 workers assembled at Workers' Center protest arrest of Halabian on trumped-up charges. Consider this arrest attempt to deny civil liberties to workers. Therefore demand...