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Word: demand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first got wind of this transaction. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, to silence the outcry, promised to see what could be done to squelch the deal. Sir John, reporting to Parliament last week, produced no squelcher. Banking ethics, said he, require that a customer's demand for his money be honored without question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pelf | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

With six copies of the petition still circulating and untabulated, over one hundred and fifty students are known to have endorsed the demand for a "formal declaration of policy" of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT CONANT WILL SEE PETITION AUTHORS THURSDAY | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...Briggs local's smart little Vice President Emil Mazey popped out a demand for the same sort of union shop guarantee which John Lewis won for his coal miners last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Briggs and Bats | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...streamer at the head of page 1 bannered a new proposal for relief of the railroads: "Railroads Demand Mann Act Repeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bawl Street | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Flushing, N. Y., World's Fair bus horns, instead of raucous honks, dulcetly tootle a few bars of The Sidewalks of New York. Results: Instead of getting out of the way, pedestrians stop to listen; Copyright Owner Max Mayer decided to demand royalties for each performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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