Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition, it was pointed out that in several large elementary courses designed for Freshmen, such as History 1 and English 1, the instructors conducted regular reviews, making Union sessions unnecessary. Unless Freshmen express a great demand for reviews before the final exams, they will no doubt be dropped permanently...
...tone, his modest admission of faults in NRA, his intimation that a constitutional amendment was not necessary were all mildly reasonable. He did not speak of making the Supreme Court keep step with New Deal aims but of bringing "legislative and judicial action into closer harmony." He did not demand, as he did in his horse & buggy declaration, that the Supreme Court swing into line, but said that the judiciary "is asked by the people to do its part in making democracy successful." His whole speech had the tenor of an appeal to the Court to put aside prejudices...
...Dewey shuttled back & forth between G. M. and U. A. W. headquarters, trying vainly to bring Generals Knudsen and Martin together at a conference table. Each side conceded one point at issue, stood firm on another. General Martin offered to lay aside, until a conference should begin, his demand that U. A. W. be recognized as sole bargaining agency for G. M. workers. General Knudsen backed down on his earlier insistence that all G. M. bargaining must be by individual plants, offered to treat with the Union nationally on matters of "general corporate policy." But he would not do that...
...viewpoint explicit in his career. He had known anti-union discrimination and the nerve-racking speed-up at first hand. He had seen automobile Labor, with a scattering of small unions, repeatedly frustrated and defeated in its attempts to right its wrongs. It was obviously presumptuous of him to demand, when he could not even claim to represent a majority of G. M. employes, that his union be recognized as sole bargaining agency for them all. But if there was to be industrial democracy in G. M., he had to be presumptuous. Only a potent national union could hope...
This week Dean Lane & friends were to go before the Arizona Legislature to demand that Arizona, only State without a full-time health commissioner, employ one at once. Prompted by Critic Buck, Dean Lane was to urge further that each of Arizona's 14 counties and all its big cities hire full-time health officers, and that those authorities be empowered to deal peremptorily with water supply, sewage disposal and all other environmental health factors...