Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telling him," said Senator Fess, "that I was more convinced than ever that the people of the country would demand his re-election so strongly that the party could not think of nominating anyone else and he could not refuse to accept the inevitable, regardless of his personal choice to retire to private life...
...incident." From it, future U. S. Presidents will learn a lesson about the embarrassments of amity. For in spite of President Coolidge's "heat," in spite of a tart suggestion by President Coolidge that Ohio politics* colored Senator Fess's interpretation of the country's "strong demand," Senator Fess continued to predict more freely than ever the renomination of the man he calls on so often...
...Chicago Symphony, threatened some weeks ago (TIME, July 25) by the musicians' demand for pay increase, announced that three citizens-Chairman John J. Mitchell of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., George Lytton and Mrs. Kellog Fairbank-have given the $30,000 symphony fund, of which each musician will receive $10 weekly. Twenty-eight subscription concerts were announced for Fridays and Saturdays, 12 for Tuesday matinees, 16 popular concerts, 12 children's. Conductor Frederick Stock is in command; Maurice Rave, guest conductor...
Then the naval mutinies broke out in the south of France (TIME, Oct. 10) and the voice of the French press grew louder. The Government, earnestly desiring to avoid a row, according to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, was last week compelled by force of public opinion to demand unequivocally the recall of Soviet Ambassador Rakovsky from France...
Since there is no demand for longer hours at Widener and since the scholastic records of Harvard compare not unfavorably with those of Princeton, the text must be found in other sources than the punching of time clocks. It would hardly be safe ground to presume that Harvard undergraduates read more quickly than those of Princeton likewise would it be foolish to announce arbitrarily that powers of assimilation are variable in given groups of young men. He who requires explanations with his argument must needs seek elsewhere. Unless he seizes upon the enormous reading facilities-including both space for readers...