Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organized labor against the reduction of prices. The unions resent what one official has termed an attempt at "arbitrarily taking money out of the workers' envelops and giving it to the printing-consuming public." It is clear that this strike is merely an instance of the time-honored demand for less work and more wages; but it holds peculiar significance for the college...
Phillips Brooks House will begin its annual clothing collection today. The drive will last four days, the final collections being made Thursday noon. Current text books, especially those of the elementary courses, are much in demand for the Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library. Old clothes, overcoats, shoes and magazines are in the greatest demand. Articles will be sent to the Associated Charities of Cambridge and Boston, the Morgan Memorial, the Salvation Army and other like institutions. The canvassers will collect from the rooms assigned them on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Thursday afternoon a wagon will...
Especially in these times of slack work, still further to cut down the demand for our manufactured products by creating a big merchant service will disorganize our industries to a dangerous degree. In any case, no matter what the conditions of trade, or with what countries, our exports can always be increased by letting our creditors carry the goods for us. Therefore, why a merchant marine? WM. R. BREWATER...
...hear shorter oaths relating to something quite different from political rights, but of far more immediate concern to those who utter them. Due to the increase in the popularity of tennis as an undergraduate sport, the students find that the number of courts available is inadequate to meet the demand. Hardly a day passes when the courts at Jarvis, Divinity, and Soldiers Field are not filled to their capacity. Often the waiting line is so long that if a student has an afternoon class, he must cut it if he desires to play tennis. Since anyone, whether...
...probable that the demand will be met not by increasing the already established colleges and universities until they reach a useless and ungainly size, but by building and organizing more institutions under state supervision. At any rate the cry for more money for college endowment funds will be heard for a long time to come, and when the long-suffering public begins to tire and contributions fall off, the state will take charge and raise the money by taxes. The youth of America wants a college education and the American youth usually gets what he wants...