Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London. Mr. Smith had just received a mandate- from the striking miners to negotiate. He announced himself willing to compromise on every point but one-the present seven-hour miners' day must not be lengthened by a moment. Suave, but inflexible, Mr. Williams replied that the owners demand "revision" (lengthening) of the miners' working day as a preliminary to any compromise whatsoever. . . . Ensued complete deadlock before the peace negotiations had even begun. The negotiants bowed formally to one another, dispersed. All hope of peace seemed gone. Then 17,000 Nottingham and Derby coal miners broke suddenly with...
...from high. M. Poincaré had not been extravagant in his preparations. He was about to ask the National Assembly to amend the Constitution -a grave step for Frenchmen, whose Constitution had sustained but two amendments since it was promulgated at Versailles in 1875. M. Poincaré would shortly demand that the internal debt of France be irrevocably guaranteed by making constitutional the recently passed legislation (TIME, Aug. 9 et seq.) creating an autonomous sinking fund outside Parliamentary control from which the internal debt will be repaid under the supervision of non-partisan experts. Beside the accomplishment of this great...
...this exalted swag as the price of her acquiescence in the Franco-Spanish mutual apportionment. Thus, in respect to Morocco alone, the new treaty looms ominously for France. Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain went so far as to intimate to correspondents last week that Spain will demand for herself the now Franco-Anglo-Spanish-neutralized Zone of Tangier, Morocco...
...worst year for British shipping on record." Corroborative statistics released by the Cunard Line show a profit for that proverbially well managed concern of only $1,600,000 for 1925. The truth is that the supply of freight bottoms has so disastrously exceeded the demand that freight rates are no higher than in 1913, whereas freight costs have nearly doubled. A pound of meat may be shipped 6,000 miles from Argentina to England for one British penny (2c). Last week 85 British cargo companies with a total capital of ?30,927,835 ($150,000,000) reported profits for last...
...call upon President Coolidge and the State Department to put an end to the ignominious contempt which has been shown by Calles for Americans. The period of 'watchful waiting' or any other such procedure is over. We, as American citizens, demand of our Government that this action be taken forthwith. Although our Government has for years emphatically refused to recognize the Soviet regime of Russia, it has continued to countenance, aid and comfort the Bolshevist forces of Carranza, Obregon and Calles...