Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must do what needs to be done'... or they must make way for others who will." (Governor Hammill is a pronounced Lowden man.) Then Governor McMullen said: "The time is past for the farmer to plead for what he should have. The time is here for him to demand what is rightfully his. We should challenge the right of any administration ... to proceed further in the industrialization of the nation at the expense of agriculture...
...codicil of King Ferdinand concluded: "I cannot close without remembering with all my heart my dear son Carol, for whom I wish a happy time in the new life which he has chosen against our wishes. ... I demand that he shall not return until all the constitutional authorities allow...
...fair sum of money in advertising its product. There is no other food product to be had in which nutritive value, wholesomeness and palatability are so well combined. It is unnatural that there should be only a limited effort of the manufacturers. Education and advertising should create a greater demand. Very few of our important food products are advertised to such a limited extent as cheese...
John Daniel Hertz of Chicago, who stirred up a new demand for motor cars by permitting people who rented his machines by the mile or hour to drive the machines themselves (Driv-ur-Self [TIME, June 21, 1926]) last week extended the idea to motor trucks. The Yellow Truck & Coach Mfg. Co., General Motors subsidiary which he heads, now rents one-ton trucks to people who need a light truck either occasionally or for some emergency. In Chicago the Driv-ur-Self truck rates are 22c to 25c a mile...
...Poland. The Government of Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski flatly refused last week, a demand by the Soviet Government that one of its agents be allowed to participate at the trial in Warsaw of Boris Kovenko, the confessed assassin of M. Vojkov. How dared small Poland thus flout great Russia...