Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Already taxes have been restored to a peacetime level. . . . This is progress in the right direction. There is still much more that can be done . . . when revenues show sufficient permanent increase. There is a growing demand for a further reduction in taxes on earned incomes . . . with which I have always been in sympathy as is evidenced by the recommendations the Treasury made to Congress. . . . The Treasury is still of this opinion and will be glad to see these principles [of tax reduction] still further carried into law whenever revenues justify such action...
...death of Mrs. Cardow, onetime dial painter for the Waterbury Clock Co., like the deaths and protracted illnesses of U.S. Radium Corp. scientists and minor employes (TIME, June 4, Nov. 26) is a social penalty for the public's demand to have night-luminous watches, clocks, gadgets...
...when he returned to Paris, to mention for the first time a definite annual Reparations sum which Germany offers to pay. Although shrouded in official secrecy this offer was soon known to be 1,500.000,000 gold marks per year ($356,850,000). Promptly the Allied delegates repeated their demand for $625,000,000; and Messrs. Morgan and Young were understood to be suggesting $500,000,000. Thus after a month of cautious trafficking in generalities, the Second Dawes Committee got down to coldest cash...
...sold out six times over!" In this palpable campaign broadside, shrewdly sold instead of given away, Mr. Lloyd George proposes to employ nearly 600,000 workers, "many within three months" on road building, house construction, telephone installation, "electrical developments," land drainage, reforestation, canal digging, and "in meeting the huge demand for British goods" which -the sixpence pamphlet confidently predicts-will result from "restoration of our trade relations with Russia...
Sonny Boy (Warner). Cast as the title of a theme-song, young Davey Lee created in The Singing Fool a demand for a picture in which he would be starred. Few critics dared to suppose that the vehicle would be more than a sentimental nimbus around the small Lee smile. They found instead an amusing and at times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best...