Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese had given no official answer, her Navy spokesman at Shanghai announced that Japan would search for "military supplies" any ship operating within 200 miles of the Chinese coast. The spokesman added: "It is not a question of rights, but of what the Japanese Naval authorities demand...
Happy at having saved three lives, Dr. Macfarlane predicted that, if all women over 30 would follow the example of the 1,200 volunteers and demand complete periodic pelvic examinations, the "appalling death rate" (15,000) from cancer of the uterus would be greatly lowered...
...doings took place in hushed hotel suites where British Foreign Seretary Lord Halifax and the Soviet delegate Ivan Maisky, also Ambassador at London haggled over the terms of the projected Anglo-French-Soviet mutual aid pact, with the prospect ever brighter that Britain would eventually accede to the Soviet demand for an out-&-out military alliance...
Last year, Baron Louis, not so nimble as Brothers Alphonse and Eugene, was caught by the Nazi invasion of Austria. His captors insisted that the Rothschild relatives ransom him by making good more of the bank's losses. Original demand was rumored to be $10,000,000, but Rothschilds are hard bargainers, and the Nazis are lucky if they got half that...
...otherwise enjoy them. No one can deny that in this attempt, the Administration has made mistakes, has been guilty of extravagance and short-sightedness. No such tremendous effort, newly launched, can deny its feet of clay. Certainly these defects warrant reform, but not the slaughter which bloodthirsty senators demand...