Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what against the African Majesty of cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro New York News: "Colored America demands that civilization does not permit Italy to precipitate a world race war by invading Abyssinia. . . . Let civilization beware." To acting General Secretary A. W. Berry of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights occurred the idea of an organized world struggle by Negroes against Italy's white blackshirts...
Since Benito Mussolini, too, is a Great Editor, the Italian people read in their papers last week nothing about Abyssinia except references to the "arrogance and provocation" with which Power of Trinity I continued to make no reply to II Duce's demand; for a $44,900 indemnity, apologies and Abyssinian salutes to the Italian flag...
...quick halt in September by stubbornly refusing to buy. Now that the beef and hog shortage is really a market factor meat prices are again climbing. The supply of fresh butter has dwindled so rapidly that dealers are drawing from storage 1,000,000 Ib. daily to meet demand, and stocks on hand at the beginning of February were only 18,000,000 Ib. as against 76,000,000 Ib. at the same time last year. Retail prices have jumped from 35? per lb. in November to as high as 51?. In December sale of butter substitutes doubled...
...more adequate--no Civil Service will be of permanent value so long as it fails to attract those men who possess the rare quality of leadership. The fact which cannot be overemphasized is that such men are not attracted by security alone, nor by mere altruism. What they have demanded in the past, and what they will certainly demand in the future, is, first, a tangible opportunity to rise in proportion to their demonstrated ability, and, second, opportunity to cut their swathe in American life...
...sooner was that settled than the pie problem raised its ugly head in the House Restaurant. Each sliver (and it was charged that they were not regulation size) cost fifteen cents. Members protested that this was plutocratic and unjustifiable. With this demand went one for a deduction in the price of coffee from ten cents to five...