Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the tables have been turned. Adolf Hitler, by his tearing up of the military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, his revelation that he has secretly built an air battle fleet the equal of Great Britain's, and his demand for a German navy 35% as strong as hers, has given official London the jitters. He has also given suave, poker-faced Joachim von Ribbentrop the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission-the special mission being to see what Britannia has to say about Germany's naval demands. Last week Ambassador von Ribbentrop, after...
Pensions: Deputy Henri Maupoil, a moderate Left war veteran chosen by Premier Laval at the imperative demand of French war veterans who waited upon him in delegations, successfully demanded that veterans' pensions be administered by a veteran...
...patient named Alyce Jane McHenry who was suffering from diaphragmatic hernia. Before Dr. Truesdale could operate, the Press had taken possession of the McHenry case, front-paged the child as the "upsidedown stomach girl" (TIME, March 11). Anticipating that Massachusetts Medicine would promptly call him on the carpet and demand his explanation of all this publicity, Dr. Truesdale forehandedly asked for a hearing, got one, then last month wrote a long, abject "Letter to the Medical Profession," setting forth the entire case in the New England Journal of Medicine. Excerpts...
...Read & White of 111 Summer Street, Boston, "a steady and consistent advertiser" and assures us that it would be "a gratefully received bit of cooperation" if we would run an item saying that they have "academic costumes--bachelor's, doctor's, master's or what-not--for last-minute demand...
...form of government from the East. The dilemma of Peter the Great, who tried to evoke initiative by force, who "desired that the slave, remaining a slave, should act consciously and freely," remained to haunt the later Tsars, who dared not concede an inch of freedom lest their subjects demand a mile...