Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer afford the luxury of 20 year lags. You will find no justification in any of the language of the Constitution for delay in the reforms which the mass of the American people demand. . . . I ask that the American people rejoice in the wisdom of their Constitution. ... I ask that they give their fealty to the Constitution itself and not to its misinterpreters. . . . For us, the Constitution is a common bond, without bitterness, for those who see America as Lincoln saw it-the last, best hope of earth.' So we revere it, not because it is old but because...
Education. One bitter theme was Federal aid for local schools. South Carolina's Johnston: "We should be as jealous of individual liberty in education as we are of individual liberty in religion. . . . South Carolina will always demand its right to segregate the whites and the blacks. . . . We would not condone anything which approaches racial equality." North Carolina's Hoey: "In my State the municipalities accepted State funds and the burden of education gradually shifted to the State. The same thing will happen in the Federal Government." Maine's Barrows: "I most certainly fear control of education...
...Century. It was in defiant efforts to force "equal treatment" from Democratic powers that the Nazis clamored loudest and ultimately tore up the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, Feb. 8). Last week Il Duce set the Italian press to clamoring that Britain and France have now denied "equality" to Italy, demanding that the Italian navy be given an equal share in any patrol of the Mediterranean. As these editorials were read beyond the Rhine, German editors began to grind out reams of comment extremely favorable to Italy and in terms of her right to "equality" and "honor." This was the kind...
That Certain Woman (First National-Warner Bros.). Warner Brothers paid $25,000 in court costs in England last fall to compel high-spirited Bette Davis to return to the fold after her rebellion against playing an uncongenial part (in God's Country and the Woman), and her demand that her salary be increased was refused. Actress Davis herself spent $18,000 opposing the action, could be made to pay the $25,000 court costs as well, since the studio has not yet executed its judgment against her for the amount...
...said, "at the present time, is to do absolutely nothing about the matter, and concentrate on spectacular subjects like foreign affairs, in the hope that the public will forget about the matter. This is the President's policy despite the fact that his closest advisors have urged him to demand Black's resignation...