Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warning to bonuseers that he was going to fight their $2,000,000,000 demand unless an equal amount of taxes was imposed...
...warning to citizens that even if some bonus compromise is made on a lesser sum, the Administration will demand that present high taxes be upped another notch...
...scandal ready-made but to cause a split in the Cabinet. Regular Democrats looked down a long vista of trouble with Huey Long hammering at their Party manager. Yet that day, Huey's daily denunciation went astray. When he rose to begin, Democratic Leader Robinson agreed to the demand for any data Mr. Ickes might have about Mr. Farley. Promptly Long's resolution was passed...
...this will undoubtedly bring a demand from some sources for further devaluation of the dollar. Forty dollars an ounce has already been suggested instead of the present price of thirty-five dollars. So that besides increasing the already too numerous internal inconsistencies of Administration policy, the recent decisions may conceivably end in a vicious circle involving further depreciation of the currency...
...there are rumors of a grim resurgence among the ranks of House and Dormitory domestics. No longer will they tolerate the opprobrious name which swept into acceptance at Harvard in the slackening of standards of the Post War period. They demand their ancient and honorable title of "goody." As spokesman for their cause a goody of Kirkland House has come forward, deposed, and stated it as her irrevocable opinion that "biddy" is not a maidservant, but a fowl. "We might have been chickens once," she said, "but we want to be called "goodies...