Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police and U. S. Department of Justice agents moved to investigate Wendel's story that he had been kidnapped and tortured, public outrage boiled over. "IMPEACH HOFFMAN," screamed the Trenton Evening Times in a front-page editorial. "It is up to every citizen," roared this Independent sheet, "to demand Hoffman's impeachment and the jailing of all the political mobsters who are obstructing justice and defaming the name of the State...
...Alps. In Rome they attended military reviews, later closeted themselves for hours with Il Duce. What was said privately between Mussolini and his small allies is yet to be told, but it was pretty well indicated last week when bespectacled Chancellor Schuschnigg stood up in the Austrian Diet to demand a new law breaking once more the Treaty of Saint Germain, restoring compulsory military service to Austria...
...only trying to mix me up all over again," said Alice, sitting up again, with her legs curled under her. "This is Karl, not Groucho. He writes on economics. You know, demand and supply as related to the production and consumption of goods, both capital and consumers...
...Queen was sitting in the grass beside Alice with her arms folded rigidly across her chest. She let out a snort, and the blast made Alice shiver. "My dear, this demand and supply you talk about is nonsense. If you don't stop reading books, you will always talk like this. I only know that I want something, and if I have enough money in my pocket-book I go down to the store to buy it. And if the store doesn't have what I want, I take my money and go home again with-out what I came...
...America for Americans" is the fine new demand made to all patriotic Freshmen yesterday by the Veterans of Future Wars in a "manifesto" followed by a petition pledging support. Besides the retroactive bonus demand, the manifesto threw open the Home Fire Division (burning not shooting) of the V.F.W. to all mothers or future mothers of male children who, they naturally demand, must be sent to France immediately as partial compensation for the inevitable loss of their future husbands...