Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the League of Nations was faced with Nazidom's next demand even before the League Council could get around last week to deciding how and when to give Germany the Saar. In Geneva all was gloom. The League plebiscite had produced a result diametrically opposed to the sympathies of most League statesmen, however much they had discounted it in advance. Glumly they agreed to hand over the Saar on March 1 to Germany-a nation which stalked out of the League as haughtily as did Japan...
After the Senate rebuffed the President, Secretary of State Lansing hastily cabled that "the United States will not at present support any demand for the extradition of the ex-Kaiser or participate in any way in his trial should it occur...
...Russians who believe such things, is Death the right punishment? According to the State's Press last week, "Yes!" The Dictator's newsorgans printed reams of resolutions said to have been passed by Communist groups all over Russia demanding Death for Kamenev and Zinoviev. Since 117 small fry had already been shot (TIME, Jan. 7). seemingly nothing could have saved Prisoners Zinoviev and Kamenev last week, if the expressions of popular demand were genuine. When dread Judge Ulrich, "Stalin's Executioner," sentenced Zinoviev to only ten years imprisonment and Kamenev to only five...
During the panic of 1857, when nearly every bank in the land suspended specie payments at least temporarily. Chemical continued to pay out cash on demand, much of it in good hard gold. Even today the bank is affectionately known to Wall Street oldsters as "Old Bullion...
Mounting orders from the automobile industry have accounted for most of the blast furnaces blown in during the past few weeks, but demand from other sources is also swelling. Carnegie Steel last week received a 24,000-ton rail order, equal to nearly 15% of all the rails it rolled last year...