Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first exploit of this character was to demand and receive by right of might the resignation of President Arturo Allessandri (TIME, Oct. 12, 1925), and to cause the election of President Emiliano Figueroa...
Rogers Hornsby, slugging second-baseman, had been manager of the world champion St. Louis baseball Cardinals; had demanded a three-year contract, calling for $50,000 per year. Owner Sam Breadon had refused this demand; had traded Hornsby to the New York Giants. Negotiations concluded, it became known that Player Hornsby's earthly possessions were made up of incompatible elements. He owned a contract to play baseball for the Giants, also 1,167 shares of the capital stock of a rival team, the Cardinals. League heads, fearing scandal, said that he must dispose of one or the other...
...commission representing the French chambers of commerce which lately examined Germany's aircraft factories, found that ten-and twelve-passenger planes, triple-motored for safety, were still most in demand by the large German passenger companies. But larger planes were building daily...
...preface to the volume, Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75 explains that the speeches were not originally designed for publication, but that at popular demand the speakers were obliged to amplify and reconstruct the rough notes made for the speeches...
...storm of applause which greeted the appearance of W. L. Wilson '27 last night as the red-headed Queen Elizabeth in the Hasty Pudding club's eighty first annual riot, seems to indicate a public demand to investigate further this question of color. The wise man will only look more devilish and confine his remarks to the cleverness, good looks, and ability of said Wilson, who is even better this year than in the past two years, which is as much as can be said for any actor. Arnie Horween was heard to mutter that if he only...