Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Czechoslovakian superdiplomat returned to Prague last week, summoned in haste from a meeting of the Little Entente. There dinned upon his ears the demand of his party (Czech National Socialist) that he resign as Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia-as right hand man of patriarchal President Masaryk...
...reason for this astonishing demand was of a nature dear to politicians. The Czech National Socialists are engaged in attacking the government's Grain Duties Act, a salutary bourgeois measure perhaps a trifle too conciliatory toward the Teutonic moneyed class...
...June World's Work remarks--the passing of what William Allen White terms "American Populism" with the death of Bryan. Roosevelt, Wilson, and La Follette. Before 1890, the Populist Party, which at its height commanded but 22 electoral votes, demanded curbing of the trusts, strict regulation of railroads, banking reform, popular election of Senators, an income tax, and cheap money. At the hour of first demand, politicians of the major parties would have none of these issues. By 1917 all except the last had found expression in law. They permeated the political life of two decades and attached themselves...
...first meeting resulted in adjournment for two days, the reason being that neither the delegate from Spain nor the delegate from Brazil was present. One was "ill, the other had pressing business." The real reason was that Spain and Brazil both demand to be made permanent members of the Council, and the other nations demur. If the strain grows too acute one or both of them may even withdraw from the League-at least that was the talk in Rio de Janiero...
...Communists deemed the Fascists hogs because the latter demand the return to members of the German nobility of property seized from them by the German Republic. The Fascists flayed the "Communist robbers" because they are whooping up German voters to ballot, on June 20, in a national referendum (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) which-if 20,000,000 votes are cast-will confirm and legalize the Republic's seizures of property. In the Prussian Landtag, both Communists and Fascists grunted and howled when Herr Hőpker-Aschoff, Prussian Minister of Finance, attempted an "impartial" speech as follows: "While...