Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council of the American Federation of Labor last week repaired to Miami, Fla. The committeemen put their heads together, bloody but unbowed, to decide what they would ask Politics to do for Labor this year. Time was no object at their sessions and during the week only one major demand was decided upon, that being a demand already outlined at the A. F. of L. Convention last autumn in Los Angeles, namely, for a Volstead Act amendment to permit 2.75% beer...
...Headlines screamed throughout the globe, when the 21 Delegations voted 15 to 6 in preliminary conclave that not only plenary sessions of the Conference but also committee meetings should be public. Because the U. S. had been expected to demand secret sessions-lest Latins flay U. S. intervention in Nicaragua-universal astonishment reigned, last week, as Charles Evans Hughes calmly cast the U. S. vote for public sessions. Amazing! Now there would be fireworks...
...prosperity, plagues, wars; Natal, how the arrangement of the stars at the moment of birth determines a person's character, physique, life work; Horary, concerning the propitiousness of the stars for (or against) playing the market, getting married, leaving town. The last two branches of astrology are most in demand today...
...other words: For Jackson Diners, the paradox of a Democracy without definition. From the Democratic nominee-presumptive, a demand for definition beyond doubt...
...statistics of the Summer School show that there has been rapidly increasing demand for advance courses during the past five years...