Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teachers who were called upon to find the answer to the demand of business, to give classroom expression to vague aspirations, the first and, indeed, the abiding question was. What is essential to be taught, and how can it be taught? Among the confusing array of business activities which must somehow be constrained within courses of instruction, where should emphasis be laid? If business itself answers "Marketing," or "Factory Production," or, if more inclusively, it answers "Management," and there should be no academic equipment in these fields, what should be done? What shifts and devices, what combinations of planning...
Administration of so called "criminal" justice can be greatly improved by fewer rigid laws such as those of the Jones 5 & 10 calibre. Bigger and better prisons and jails would not be needed if our present laws would demand that the intent of the accused to commit crime be established as per requirements of malum in se laws, rather than the laws which our "overworked" and zealous legislators hand out known as malum prohibition laws, where criminal intent is not essential to commit crime and to become a "criminal...
...Havana taken from him by the Cuban Government. His claim was based on a 400-year-old Spanish grant bounding the property ''as far as a dog's bark could be heard." Cuban courts and the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee have upheld his demand for compensation. The Cuban Government has refused...
Thwarted, furious, the now frankly anti-Semite crowd rushed howling to demand that the Cathedral authorities refuse to harbor a Jewess. In the riot a traffic policeman was knocked down, trampled, bloodied. Finally with 300 police rescuers holding back the mob, sobbing, hysterical "Miss Universe" was sped in a limousine with blinds down, to a place of refuge undisclosed...
Important at the gathering were 20 schoolmasters and schoolmarms, Secretary Crabtree's predecessors and successors. Former dunces and scholars of Teacher Crabtree heard him urge them to combine to demand from Federal and State legislators educational facilities equal to those of city schools, just as they are combining to merchandise their produce. They were advised to better their schools, make the farm-bred healthy and wise, keep them on the farm...