Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...move a hair's breadth. A few meaningless differences in words is all that stands between agreement on the article ten reservation and peace. The Democrats have come nine-tenths of the way, but still the Republicans stand adamant, flaunting their power in the face of a universal demand for ratification. Under the contemptible guise of "Americanism," selfish political considerations are blocking the road to world peace...
Characterization of the French railway strike as revolutionary is more than a political catchword. The strike was in fact begun by a group of avowed revolutionary syndicalists, and was opposed at first by the reformist leaders of the French trade unions. The demand for "nationalization," which has come steadily to the front through the earlier negotiations and the strike itself is, as French labor understands the word nationalization, a demand for democratization of the management of the roads. The demand is most loudly voiced on the lines already owned by the state. Before the war the Federation of Railway Workers...
...very glad to learn that the Hoover League of Harvard is showing so convincingly the strength of the demand for Mr. Hoover's nomination for the presidency. Mr. Hoover's record at the head of the Food Administration and of relief work in Europe demonstrated his primacy among the many successful business men whom the war has brought into public life. His success in handling human as well as technical problems has inspired all classes of people with the same confidence which business men were quick to place in his abilities...
...members of the Boston Symphony have no time they can depend upon to earn money through lessons or outside work, and thus to fatten their meagre incomes. Under these conditions their demand for a union is no more than a demand for justice...
Nowhere did the CRIMSON deny that men, "whose reputations demand for them respect," had investigated the phenomena of psychical research. The merit of these investigations is a question on which a difference of opinion exists. And Professor Hall's side of the case is worth our hearing...