Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, before he went fishing, wrote out in his own hand a letter agreeing that His Majesty's Government will negotiate with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, owing to Mr. de Valera's sudden demand -following the Munich dismemberment of Czechoslovakia-that a plebiscite be held to determine whether some of Ulster (the six counties of Northern Ireland which are part of the United Kingdom) shall be brought under the de Valera Government of Eire...
...latest reports the Slovak-Hungarian parley at Komarno had given Budapest no territory except the town of Ipolysag and the Slovak portion of Satoraljaujhely on the border. Hungary was asking 6,000 square miles with a population of 1,200,000 but was apparently getting no backing in this demand from Germany...
German art historians have already explained away German medieval art, which is anything but naturalistic, as, in the words of Herr Alfred Rosenberg, "turned away from its sources by Catholicism." But. in his demand for neoclassic art in Germany, Führer Hitler did not refer to the fact that Raphael Mengs (1728-79), founder of the German neoclassic school, was half...
...more concrete side of the current business picture, it appeared to the "spokesman" that the nation's shelves of merchandise were far more empty than a year ago, that the consumer demand of the public had declined far less than might have been supposed from reading the tearing-down stories in the press, that the full effect of pump-priming was still to be felt, that employment was gaining more than seasonally. The "spokesman" warned that the Administration will continue to prevent prices from going through the roof...
PARIS--Nearly 6,000,000 war veterans who claim to control more than half of France's voting strength tonight swung behind leftist leader Henri Pinchet's demand for a "national salvation" government which would rule until 1940 with virtually dictatorial powers