Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother who permits her girl to attend such functions should demand ironclad protection. Girls from 15 to 25 were there. We had two in our party. Never would have I permitted either to have gone without constant watch. I knew what they were going to face! What a responsibility! What aches of mind...
...Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive demand that Italy join the Allies against Germany and Austria-Hungary. He went to the front in 1916 and was soon severely wounded...
...fairs, it wasn't big enough for the biggest. Into executive session went major industrial exhibitors (investment: $35,000,000) and voted to ask the Fair to cut the gate to 50?. Concessionaires, whose girl shows have failed to turn the trick at the tills, went further. Their demand: a 25? admission fee at night...
That last demand irked General Motors most. It was the key to Walter Reuther's whole subtle strike purpose. What union label would he prefer? The C. I. 0. label, of course. But not all G. M. workers are C. I. 0. unionists by any means. And the split of United Automobile Workers into a C. I. 0. and an A. F. of L. faction occurred after G. M.'s present contract with U. A. W. was negotiated. Walter Reuther, declared the company, was making demands and calling strikes at this critical time simply to clinch the superiority...
...insistence that Britain specifically guarantee Estonia, Latvia and Finland against German aggression. Last week Führer Hitler appeared in the singular role of playing Stalin's game for him as the British Government, alarmed over the Danzig situation, was reported virtually to have conceded every Russian demand. Concessions were: 1) Specific military guarantees to the Baltic States; 2) Anglo-French-Russian staff consultations before the alliance becomes effective; 3) specific pledges by Britain and France not to make a separate peace during war, leave Russia holding the bag. Sole outstanding issue left to quibble over was Russia...