Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Public opinion. Senator Reed Smoot, high-tariff chairman for the Senate Finance Committee admitted: "I have found very little demand for changes in the tariff. . . . Many of the heavy duties proposed by the House can be reduced without injury to industry...
Kenosha, Wis. Still out of work were 235 hosiery mill operatives, mostly girls. Their demand: union recognition...
...outraged woman. Minister Tardieu assured the honorable deputy that the face of M. Chiappe had not so been slapped. Veteran Dormann declared he had seen it with his own eyes. He suddenly shouted: "As a Deputy, as a war veteran, as a man. I have been insulted! I demand an official retraction...
...When their great age made traveling to the Palace difficult, Imperial messengers were sent to ask their advice. Prince Kimmochi Saonji, now 80 (he was born in the year of the California Gold Rush) is the last survivor. So great is his influence still that when etiquette seemed to demand that Prime Minister Tanaka and his whole Cabinet must resign with Privy Councillor Uchida, Cabinet Members hastened to the garden of Prince Saonji respectfully to wait the opinion of that wrinkled sage...
...spark, which exploded the gas, which made their cars go. The Bosch Magneto was referred to as "heart of the automobile," was considered its most important organ. That its inventor was a German did not in those days detract from his genius. Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch found a great demand for his product in the U. S. In 1906 he sent two compatriots, Herren Otto Heins and Gustave Klein, to New York to incorporate a U. S. subsidiary. When U. S. efficiency developed the self-starter and brilliant ampere-eating headlights, battery ignition supplanted the magneto in passenger cars. Magneto...