Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admit that there are many things in Liberia that demand improvement?that Monrovia is still primitive without a water supply, sewage disposal, pavements or telephones, and that the few and dim electric lights only emphasize the darkness of the tropic night. I had no sympathy with, and in fact publicly criticized, the action of Liberia in regard to a just debt but that matter has now been straightened out. It is also true that there is but one semblance of a road in the Republic, outside the Firestone plantation, but the Government is now building a thoroughfare through the interior...
...Canada's relief camps, who have proved to be among the ugliest customers ever supported at their fellow citizens' expense, pressed on with their plans to "march" on Ottawa in motor trucks. Premier Bennett issued appeals to all Canadians of goodwill to oppose this mass trek to demand still more of Canada's taxpayers...
...Great Train Robbery (1903), The Birth of a Nation (1914), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Jazz Singer (1927), the newsreel of the sinking Vestris (1928) are classics which help explain how & why the cinema became what it now is. Because the profitable demand for them is soon exhausted, most films, classic or otherwise, are retired after about two years, frequently forgotten, sometimes destroyed. To preserve for students and posterity important moving pictures of the past will be the function of the film library which Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week announced...
Lawyer Burkan claims that ASCAP controls only 3% of the current musical copyrights. (Unfortunately for broadcasters, the 3% represents the popular tunes most in demand.) The Government has contended that music is a physical thing-a commodity which is transmitted from State to State. Burkan's persistent retort has been that music is "intangible and incorporeal." Lawyer Thomas Day Thacher. U. S. Solicitor General under Herbert Hoover, entered the trial to argue that ASCAP existed only to protect the rights of composers and lyric writers, pooh-poohed the idea that the organization was potent enough to dominate an industry...
...Miss Fanny Jackson, only daughter of General '"Stonewall" Jackson. For years Miss Fanny's precarious finances induced her to part with a great flood of letters and manuscripts belonging to her father and Forger Spring had to work like a beaver to keep up with the demand...