Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...latter work he has shown such a predilection. However, the story goes that the Advocate board in his day was fonder of crisp and witty prose and rather peppery editorials than of poetry, though it sometimes sat down--not without sarcastic comments--to grind out verses for the popular demand...
...Sharfman closed the affirmative debate. Conditions, he said, demand the adoption of a scheme for granting pensions to superannuated workmen. This will reduce pauperism, facilitate the cooperation of labor and capital, and make the benefits of old age pensions universal...
...ready to face the situation. Existing conditions demand a remedy. Shall it be further attempts at regulation or municipal ownership? Three years ago, District-Attorney Jerome pledged himself to secure from these companies more efficient service, and although he was clothed with all the police powers of the city, he could accomplish almost nothing. All attempts at regulation have failed. The reason is manifest. Most of the franchises, owned by the street railway companies, are almost unconditional and practically perpetual. The only legal means by which the city can secure adequate control is to buy back the franchises. This means...
There is a growing disposition to inquire into the social and industrial machinery and to demand that it be applied to the benefit of the people as a whole. The power controlling the policy to this end must possess insight, and it has been the experience of nations that the best governor is the body of the intelligent few. The abnormal condition exists none the less that the policy has usually been opposite to that proposed by those who have studied the growth, development and application of the science of economics...
Professor Wendell after reviewing the causes of the Revolution, spoke of the men who began it. An intense philanthropic and noble spirit, he said, urged them on with the demand for "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity." They wished to substitute new democratic conditions for the old autocratic traditions. They succeeded in overthrowing the old conditions, and in their place the Empire arose...