Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general staff advised Admiral Horthy that Ethiopia could not be conquered in a single season by the Italians, as it later was, he scoffed openly and sent them packing, has long made no secret of his pro-Mussolini and pro-Hitler leanings. Startling to Hungary last week was a demand by His Serene Highness, in one of his extremely rare public speeches, for the setting up of three Leagues of Nations...
...unit bankers are numerically tops, but financially they yield to the big city banking chains. In convention at San Francisco last year some unit bankers talked about withdrawing from the A.B.A. unless given more say in its management and announced they would demand a change in the A. B. A. constitution supporting the established dual (state and national) banking system. Last week a few of them took the step of hiring separate headquarters but further separation was unnecessary, for the big branch banks yielded without a struggle. Instead of a constitutional change, however, they deftly compromised on a resolution...
...close, bringing on as lusty a brawling as in any A. F. of L.C. I. O. fracas. A plea to reopen from their president and from now on the Commissioner of Markets was met in open mass meetings with a loud Yiddish NO! Ignoring the law of supply & demand, which was working with textbook simplicity as a result of Drought and Government curtailment, the butchers howled that they were the victims of a packers' monopoly...
...years ago with promises to pay every citizen a monthly "dividend" of $25 (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935 et seq.). The first bill would force Alberta newspapers to give as much as one full page to presentation of the Government's views verbatim at any time upon demand, is entitled An Act Ensuring Publication of Accurate News and Information. The second would arbitrarily increase taxation of Alberta banks $2,000,000 per annum, and the third makes this possible by classifying "banks" as "credit institutions," thus making them liable to measures which under Dominion law could not be applied...
...Philadelphia business man, founded the first one at University of Pennsylvania in 1881, the first students were for the most part rich young men who came to learn how to manage their private property. But as the complexity and salaries of U. S. business management increased, so did the demand of young men and women for training to set them on the road to wealth. Today some 80 universities have schools of business administration with over 100,000 students preparing to be junior executives, accountants, government administrators, lawyers, teachers...