Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Dictator Benito Mussolini has sharply forbidden his soldiers to be served by native women, their needs in Asmara last week were being supplied by French and Italian girls, the French being in greater demand with equal wages rigidly enforced...
With hundreds of thousands of onetime coal miners on the dole and misery stalking the "depressed areas," coal mine owners claim they cannot raise wages because their combined operating profit for the whole United Kingdom last year was only ?4,000,000. The miners demand a combined wage increase of ?16,500,000 and their nation-wide vote last week authorized miner leaders to order a coal strike unless this demand...
Convinced that there is about the Jew something of a noxious but elusive character, something deeper even than "blood and race," the Nazi leader of Franconia, famed Julius Streicher, Boss of Nürnberg and pal of Adolph Hitler, came out with a ringing demand: "The new laws for the protection of German racial purity must be extended to dolls and wax figures. It is an insult to German womanhood that Jewish children should play with dolls having German faces. The Jews must be forced to manufacture dolls with definitely...
...respect to scholarships, the changes in conditions noted at Harvard are of universal significance. As academic standards are improved less free time is left in the day for self help work. The depression has at once reduced the opportunities for self help and increased the demand upon such opportunity as does exist. To keep a college a cross section of the best in American life is therefore more difficult. But the difficulties only heighten the importance of proper steps to maintain our great universities as truly national institutions. The Harvard National Scholarships, designed to attract men of the most promising...
...Moines vice crusader, had got out a warrant against him for breaking Iowa's gambling laws. Governor Olson promptly promised Governor Her ring immunity from extradition if he chose to remain in Minnesota, whereupon Governor Herring countered by pointing out that nobody but the Governor of Iowa could demand that he be extradited...