Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty Kang Te hastily fled from Manchukuo this week to China until all transport facilities were crushingly overtaxed. In Harbin, the Russian metropolis of Manchukuo. which teems with both White Russians and Red, furious quarreling raged between Japanese-Manchu officials and Soviet Consul General Mikhail Slavutsky. He refused their demand that 108 Manchu troops who recently mutinied against Japanese officers and took refuge in Siberia across the Soviet border be disgorged by the Soviet Far East Army of Red Marshal Blucher. Finally the Russians became so incensed that on orders from Moscow all Soviet citizens in Manchukuo were urged...
...does not need to be a camp-follower of Hoover to delight in his recent political exhibitions, which add great zest to already stirring issues. The possible effects demand some sort of estimate. We should not forget that in 1932 he received the biggest minority vote in history. As a probable indication of the way his thoughts are tending, it is not out of order to inspect his flattering mention of Cleveland-the only president to make a come-back after being defeated. Certainly this much rises out of the mist of Republican politics-Hoover recently has become much stronger...
...Germans, M. George Gaston Quien, was out of jail, having served 17 years. While a prisoner he fell heir to a large fortune and his sentence was commuted. Last week, fashionably dressed but prematurely white-haired and prison-pale, M. Quien was bustling about with his lawyers. "My demand is for a new trial and complete exoneration," he said. "This is a case of mistaken identity. It was not I but another man who disclosed to the Germans the activities of Nurse Cavell...
Bread 40? per loaf, butter $2 per lb., coffee $4 per lb., sugar 35? per lb. and the cheapest cigarets $1 for 20. Foreigners and Russians alike now pay these prices, established not by haphazard Capitalist supply & demand but by scientific Communist planning...
...less political influence on our governments, both State and national, than the Barrel-Rollers' Union in Pumpkin Center. . . . The problem resolves itself therefore into one of federation of the group interests to bring to bear their voting strength upon the men who are willing to serve when the demand is made impressive by numbers...