Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back up this demand for action, the Saar Commission sent to Geneva a report stating that Saar police can no longer be relied on and are now hand in glove with the Secret Police of Adolf Hitler across the border. Up to a few months ago Saar Catholics, offended by Nazi attempts to bring their church to heel in Germany, were expected to influence the plebiscite strongly, but by last week the poll seemed so likely to favor Germany that a frantic rush had begun by Saar citizens to climb on the Nazi bandwagon...
...gold rubles (then $168,000,000). Japan insisted that the nominal buyer must be Manchukuo, but the 13-month haggle has been held in Tokyo with the Japanese Foreign Office setting the figure Manchukuo offers to pay. The first offer, less than one-fifth of Russia's demand, provoked Moscow to horse laughs, especially as it was made in depreciated, fluctuating Japanese yen. Since then all figures have been secret, with Comrade Yurenev and Mr. Hirota defying each other with a "final offer" every few months. Last week, with tempers erupting on both sides, a break in negotiations came...
...plays with the late David Belasco. When Henry DeMille died, his widow first turned her home into a girls' school, sent young Cecil to Pennsylvania Military College. his older brother William to Columbia. Later she founded the DeMille Play Com pany, originally formed to supply the in creasing demand for DeMille-Belasco plays, which did a flourishing agent's business for 20 years. Young Cecil studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, set out to be an actor. After a few seasons on the stage, he became manager of his mother's business, met Producer Jesse L. Lasky, collaborated...
...last month while farmers stolidly eyed their burning pastures, another group of U. S. citizens whose living is also made from an agricultural product began to fear not shortage but glut. This group? the tanners?have the misfortune to use as their principal raw material a commodity in which demand has no bearing whatsoever on supply. Hide production depends not on the use of shoe leather but on beef consumption. Cattle are slaughtered for meat and the hide is merely a byproduct...
...crops over a long period piled up a surplus of U. S. cotton which on Aug. 1 stood at 11,000,000 bales. The small 1934 crop would reduce this carryover to some 6,000,000 bales, almost normal. There would be nothing like a shortage but supply and demand would at least be within striking distance once again. When trading was resumed the price of cotton soared nearly ½? per lb. in the wildest markets in many months. Distant futures climbed to 14? per lb. for the first time since...