Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that its adoption would deprive the people of India of opium for their personal use. The atmosphere became heated; and all manner of gross insinuations were hurled. Mr. Campbell held that the U. S. delegates had at last year's League Conference withdrawn their objections to India's demand for the continuance of opium eating and had stated that they did not wish to interfere in domestic matters. He insisted that the matter could not be reopened; if it were, the Indian delegation would find it difficult, perhaps impossible, to remain at the Conference...
They Knew What They Wanted. Seldom in the memory of U. S. theatrophiles have such ecstatics emanated from the critics as those greeting this play, the second of the Theatre Guild's season. Never, in the history of the Theatre Guild, has the demand for seats been so importunate. Never has an author had more cause to be complacent than has Sidney Howard, nor an actress and actor than Pauline Lord and Richard Bennett...
...part, "President Coolidge has endorsed a sound principle of economics in condemning government price fixing through legislative action. If one did have the wisdom and the power to fix prices, the values chosen would probably not be far from the natural ones determined by the laws of supply and demand. But such a standard would be very inconvenient compared with the flexible and automatic natural...
...means of eliminating illicit trade in opium (TIME, Nov. 24), had been wasting time. The American delegation, he inferred, was out to force the issue. Said he: "We have no agreement before us and yet we must deal effectively with the question of production. The dictates of common sense demand a frank admission of the dilemma in which this failure has placed the second conference, and the consideration of the possibility and wisdom of widening the scope of the discussion to include the subject of progressive suppression of the traffic in prepared opium...
...third note declined to take cognizance of a demand from the Moscow Government for an apology for having allowed the Zinoviev letter to be published without reference to Moscow. The note said there is "no intention of departing from the decision communicated to you by Mr. MacDonald and recorded in this office, that the note in question was one which his Majesty's Government cannot consent to receive...