Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nationalism, which is the basis of the anti foreign movement, is becoming the basis of a patriotism which demands the union and preservation of the Chinese people. The political significance of this Nationalist movement is great There is opposition to the foreign control of post office, customs, rail ways, and revenues, urgent demand for the abolition of the existing unequal treaties with the Great Powers, for the abandonment of concessions, legations, foreign courts, and consular jurisdiction: and a zealous effort to curb the colonial expansion of the imperialistic powers...
...Courses demand consent of instructor for registration...
...Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...
...cigarets during the period of peak demand...
...manufactured during that 12- month period. But he did know, through William P. MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, between January and July of 1927, aircraft manufacturers made more planes than during all of 1926. At present, working two and three shifts of mechanics, they cannot supply the demand excited by the summer transoceanic flights and by the airmail success...