Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of the depression in proportion to that of many other large industries--automobile, oil, transportation, etc.--can not be denied. But Mr. Insull's expansion was of an entirely different type. Whereas the Rockefeller, Ford, and Sloan interests were expanding by a normal increase in the demand for their products, Insull Utilities rose in value chiefly by an elaborate system of pyramiding stocks in the organization of new companies and by clever propaganda which created an unwarranted demand for common stock. By an ingenious series of maneuvers in buying and selling their own stocks, Insull Utilities eased into position...
...were four delegates from Western Australia who made for Buckingham Palace carrying enormous scrolls. Their obstreperous State had decided by referendum to secede from the Australian Commonwealth and seek self-governing status under the Crown (TIME. April 17, 1933). The scrolls, crammed with the signatures of Western Australians who demand this change, will be referred by the King-Emperor to his Lords and Commons when they reconvene this week...
...high time that the government mediation committee on the National Labor Relations Board brings about a settlement of this dispute between the union leaders' demands for a closed shop and the A and P's insistence that an open shop be maintained. For it is obviously impossible that the demand of section 7a for collective bargaining with labor be satisfied when labor refuses to be collective by dividing into two groups, each group maintaining that it represents all employees and each group insisting that its individual policies be carried out. The entire removal of section 7a from the Code would...
Last week the British Admiralty was urging Prime Minister MacDonald to demand a new agreement whereby Britain could have 70 cruisers, each somewhat smaller than those comprising the 50 to which she is limited by present treaties. Like Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, President Roosevelt was understood to stand firm last week on the basis of 35,000 tons as the proper size for each nation's capital ships, while Britain would like to cut this maximum...
...York last week, where they were pitching in exhibition games while waiting to start a vaudeville tour which may bring their post-season earnings to $20,000, Dizzy Dean and his brother Paul ("Daffy") announced that they would demand that their salaries ($7,500 and $3,500 respectively) be raised next year. In Detroit last week the employers who last year bought him for $100,000 from Philadelphia, paid Manager Cochrane a $10,000 bonus...