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Word: demanding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Choking on the smoke, he sneezed. He sneezed because he had just remembered that President Doumergue of France had come down to Lyons to open the fair (TIME, March 15), and would of course be the chief guest at the banquet. Aghast, M. Herriot remembered that diplomatic usage would demand the placing of Ambassador Rakovsky next to President Doumergue. What to do? Helas! Quel faux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Faux Pas | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...Passaic, N. J., 10,000 workers are striking for the right to live a decent life. Their strike is specifically the outcome of a ten percent wage out, forced upon their employers by weight of competition. The demands of the workers to return to the old wage were met by curt refusals, on the part of the mill owners. The workers' delegates were summarily discharged. The workers struck and now demand recognition of their union, sanitary working and living conditions, a 44-hour week, and a ten percent increase over the old wage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRASTIC CUT IN WAGES CAUSES STRIKE AMONG PASSAIC MILL WORKERS | 3/19/1926 | See Source »

...have been in 85% of all the counties in this country and I can tell you the people have the idea that their capital city belongs to them and not to the proprietors of movie theatres and baseball parks. The Christian people of this country demand protection of their right to one day of quiet to carry on their forms of worship. They demand protection against people who have no regard for decency or the laws of God or man. . . . And as to the Rotary clubs and the Kiwanis and Lions and Elks that you say are against this bill?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Sunday and Sabbath | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...Demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: House Papers | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

UNCHANGING QUEST?Philip Gibbs?Doran ($2). Averaging the reports of leading bookstores from Portland, Ore., to Boston, one finds that of all fiction published this year this book is most in demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: House Papers | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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