Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should Professor Baxter receive the same kind of jeers for his discussion of the Civil War, Messer Hearst and his ilk would probably demand at least the recall of our ambassador. Yet the two cases have this much in common--they are both attempts to increase international understanding...
Finally the question of curriculum could be solved by giving ten courses each year; ten of them stable fare and the others varying to serve the variegated demand. The regulars would probably be made up of the old scholastic guard: History, English Literature, Government, Economics, and so forth. The variables would be chosen out of the motley group represented by the Fine Arts, Music, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities...
...when he stood up before 2,400 delegates in Washington's Federal Auditorium this week to launch his party. After a brief speech he declared the meeting adjourned for commencement of group conferences. Up jumped one A. P. Haake, secretary of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers, to demand a hearing for those opposed to Government interference with Business...
...until naval parity was conceded to Japan. Britain counted on the U. S. to bear the brunt of insisting that the 5-5-3 ratio be maintained with Japan at the short end. 2) Italy, while expecting 5-5-3 to dynamite the conference, was adamant in her standing demand for naval parity with France, which in turn maintained her standing refusal to yield to Benito Mussolini on this sore point...
Compromise result: Burlington agreed to add another man to each Zephyr; the Brotherhood withdrew its demand for another man in each switch engine...