Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, whose party holds not a single seat in Parliament, cracked back from his five-story Fascist Headquarters Building: "We demand that Simon produce his evidence. It is utterly untrue that the British Union of Fascists receives money from foreign sources! This looks to me like part of a frame-up by Parliament to get their bill through and fix Fascism if they...
Last week Nanking was roaring at the latest exploit of Chinese Foreign Minister Chang Chun in "kidding" the Imperial Japanese Government. Tokyo had demanded that Japanese troops be permitted to join the anti-Communist forces of Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in any Chinese province into which these may be sent (TIME, Nov. 9). To this demand China's Chang replied that, while it would be premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry...
...fact that the defense was not given a hearing before the charges were broadcast to the Press, James M. Hutton Sr., head of the 50-year-old Cincinnati firm, cracked back in a flat denial: "It [the stock] went up purely because of the ancient law of supply and demand that has been in effect much longer than the law under which the Securities Commission operates...
...intensify school work and shorten the college course to three years for those who desire it. In favor of long-term education are those who plead that a man is too young for college until he is nineteen, the advocates of inflexible concentration and distribution requirements, and many who demand years spent in broadening the student's horizan by browsing through purely cultural courses. All these views are perfectly rational and acceptable in many cases, but take small account of differing tastes and temperaments...
...easiest way of working out degree requirements would be to lower the necessary courses to eleven, but demand that these should all be advanced. Elementary courses would not count toward the degree, and would only be taken by four-year men whose lack of school preparation demanded it. In this manner a comprehensible choice would be given to incoming Freshmen which would entail no useless friction and frantic decisions followed by summer school sessions...