Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time thus gained veterans were to put pressure on the President to sign the bill, on Senators to gain the necessary votes to override a veto. Commander Van Zandt asked "a million Americans''* to demand the Patman Bill's final enactment. Commander Belgrano, beaten but wishing to retire from the field with the honors of war, called on Legionaries for similar demonstrations. Telegrams at the rate of 250 an hour flooded Washington, 15,000 were delivered at the White House one day. And Father Coughlin who takes credit for having defeated the World Court, tried his influence...
Husband Gaddess had little trouble proving enough for divorce, but his demand for custody of their two children was sternly denied by the referee, who blamed the husband for having introduced his "heretofore blameless and refined wife" to Jack, "an unprepossessing fellow of low morals." Husband Gaddess filed appeal. Jack Kriendler nonchalantly went about his business of making his guests comfortable at 21. In the telephone booths appeared signs reading: "These wires aren't tapped." At the bar, wags loudly ordered Mooey cocktails...
...businessman whose philosophic and scientific bent had led him to literature in middle age. Readers of The Unknown Quantity will echo that respect. The Unknown Quantity is brief (240 pages), carefully and clearly written, contrives a genuine atmosphere of intellectual excitement, but it lacks the human charm most readers demand...
...Boch's appointment as head of the Hygiene Department must on its face command the approval of everyone. A young man, esteemed by his colleagues in the Medical School, he should bring with him the vitality, courage, and skill that circumstances demand. That the care of student health at Harvard requires these qualities is no deep, dark secret...
Last week President Roosevelt summoned Senate leaders to the White House, chided them hot-temperedly on the Senate's delay, reiterated his demand for a two-year extension of NRA. But he also declared, surprisingly, that he "could not" veto a ten month extension as proposed by Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark. The Senators marched back to the Capitol, where next day five of them joined other Finance Committee members in approving by 16-to-4 a redraft of the Clark resolution. In effect it offered an emasculated Blue Eagle less than ten months to flutter...