Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back-room political conference, the G. O. P. members of the House Ways & Means Committee met the revolt against the Tariff Bill by holding additional secret hearings last week. Before them appeared Congressmen from farm states to state the price (i.e., upward revision on pet commodities) they would demand to support the measure on the House floor. Patiently the committee heard them ask for greater duties on casein, canned tomatoes, potatoes, live cattle, hides, blackstrap, dairy products...
...corn duty was moved up from 15¢ to 25¢ per bushel (30¢ was the farm demand). Beef went up from 3¢ to 6¢ per pound (farmers wanted an 8¢ rate). Butter was left at 12¢ per lb., whither President Coolidge had temporarily raised it from 8¢. Tariff duties on milk and cream were doubled. Poultry & eggs, lard & swine, vegetables & fruits all moved up proportionately on the new tariff scale...
...exceedingly regrettable," said Politzerprasident Carl Zoergiebel in defense of his super-efficient policemen, "that bystanders were injured, but we must consider the viewpoint of the decent laborers who were not in the least connected with the uprising, and had the right to demand that the fire of insurrection be quenched as soon as possible." Another echo of Berlin's Bloody May Day was the reappearance in the news of Grigori Evseevich Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," onetime Director of the Third International, imputed author of the defamed Zinoviev letters (later proved forgeries) which caused the downfall of Ramsay...
...even with this in mind, several other considerations should first demand the attention of graduate contributions. The Harvard Fund, and especially the drive for an adequate Physics Building, launched recently by the generous gift of the Rockefeller Foundation, requires immediate contributions if only permanently to secure the original nucleus of the fund. These needs, unfortunately, can not be met by other than private contribution...
...joined the union. A holding company?Gorham, Inc.?was formed to handle the joint affairs of the three companies, each of which continued to operate its own establishment. Said Edmund C. Mayo, head of Gorham, Inc.: "U. S. prosperity has brought about a steady increase in the demand for fine jewelry...