Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that in the new wage contract due on the first of April, they at least retain the 1920 scale; and they are asking even a further increase. The president of the United Mine Workers of America claims that the operators are trying to crush the miners, and that they demand higher prices for coal using the strike as an excuse. He has consequently called a strike for the first of April and Gompers has offered the support of the American Federation of Labor...
Compulsory athletics, much maligned at the start, have been vindicated completely in the constantly increasing number of upperclassmen taking part in athletics, reflected in the demand for more squash courts and the organization of a boxing team, as well as in the renewed interest in minor sports already well-established. Nor is there any reason why this year's record should not be bettered next year, and the future of minor sports at the University considered more promising than it has been for some time...
Unless there is an exceptional demand, "Crucible" will not be presented after Friday, work beginning almost immediately on the next productions of the Workshop, which are set for the middle of April...
...going to vote for the Bonus, if it does not demand cash payment", Congressman William N. Vaile of Colorado said when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Mr. Vaile pointed out that the economical conditions of the country demanded that the financial burden of the proposed bill be shifted to the future and for this reason a cash payment should be avoided. "However," he continued, "we should do everything in our power to equalize the conditions of those who stayed at home and those who went to the front." After outlining the enormous profits earned in comparative comfort...
...considerable body of students. In Widener, Room O, the reading-room of the Division of History, Government, and Economics, is at present open on weekdays from 9 to 5, on Saturdays from 9 to 1, and on Sundays not at all. In Room O are kept books constantly in demand by men concentrating in this division and not to be found elsewhere in the building, either in the Main reading room or in Lower Widener. These books are needed both for, regular assignments in various courses and for outside tutorial reading in the division. Under the present system...