Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonds and a check for $39.43. The check he can cash at once. The bonds, he cannot sell or hock. However, any time after next June 15 he can take them to any post office or other place designated by the Secretary of the Treasury and on demand turn them in for cash. If he cashes the bonds between June 15, 1936 and June 15, 1937 he will receive their face value. If he cashes them on June 15, 1937 he will get the face value plus 3% a year compound interest. If he holds them until maturity, June...
This week, however, Death once more accomplished what anti-Longsters had been unable to. Of cerebral hemorrhage died Senate-nominee Allen, 54, who had announced his main object in Washington would be to demand an investigation of the assassination of the man on whose political coattails he had ridden...
...various veterans' associations--by some special dispensation escape labelling and the halls of Congress ring with cheers for their agents. The reason, of course, lies in their compact organization and vote-control. They come, not as petitioners with a legitimate interest to defend, but as tyrannical over-lords, to demand, and receive, great portions of the nation's substance. But when Congress kowtows to orders from bonus headquarters, the public should at least be spared the hypocritical mouthings of one senator whose conscience, said he, impelled him to vote for overriding the veto...
Whereas the House promised veterans who turned in their bonus certificates the right to demand cash payment on the face value, less borrowings, the Senate bill promised them the same amount in $50 bonds which veterans might cash at any time...
Tutoring schools in the past have done a flourishing business in giving reviews for Philosophy A, but this year the demand for them has dropped almost to nothing; in fact, one school, even after offering one free weekly review in the course as an advertisement, has found that students for the most part prefer to do their own work...